This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: New York Times
5/5/2021
Columnist Thomas Edsall surveys recent research about the past and future economic impact of automation and artificial intelligence and concludes that Democratic elites have a short time left to get ahead of cataclysmic changes in employment or else the Trump phenomenon will only be a preview of political rage.
Source: Texas Tribune
5/4/2021
"Kendall Walker, a UT-Austin senior who is part of the student strike in the admissions office, said she thinks administrators wrongly assumed the issue would die down after the school formed a committee this past year to study the song’s origins."
Source: Defector
5/5/2021
Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith did not seize the opportunity to bring the Black superstars who played for the Homestead Grays in the nation's capital, or the District's enthusiastic Black baseball fans, into the Major League fold. Was bigotry or cheapness to blame?
Source: Scholars For Reform
5/4/2021
Historians are among the scholars urging the Senate to reform the filibuster, arguing that a supermajority requirement to pass legislation is unsupported by the historical evidence of the framers' intentions and today distributes power in an undemocratic way.
Source: ProMarket
5/2/2021
Arnold C. Harberger reflects on his service in the University of Chicago's economics department as it became a highly influential center of "free market" policymaking.
Source: Wired
5/2/2021
Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants.
Source: New York Times
4/30/2021
"Critics operating both inside and outside the A.P.A. say that it still must overcome high hurdles to truly address its issues around racial equity — including its diagnostic biases, the enduring lack of Black psychiatrists and a payment structure that tends to exclude people who can’t afford to pay out of pocket for services."
Source: Commonwealth
5/1/2021
The boundaries separating the many small towns of Massachusetts don't just contribute to local color; they've historically worked to structure significant inequalities even among neighboring municipalities.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
4/30/2021
Governor Tate Reeves recently declared systemic racism is a myth. A reporter wonders if he's spent time in his own state.
Source: New York Times
5/1/2021
Is the Biden administration's response to the crises affecting America more than a collection of programs and initiatives? Is the Democratic party moving to firmly repudiate Ronald Reagan's quip that "government is the problem"?
Source: The New Yorker
4/30/2021
In 2017, the New York Times revealed that the Pentagon had been conducting a secret research program on UFOs for ten years, upending more than a half-century of conspiratorial thinking about what the government was allegedly hiding.
Source: Los Angeles Times
5/3/2021
Anyone concerned about "woke" US History should take a close look at their teenagers' AP US History curriculum, which would not rile Trump's 1776 Commissioners, says columnist Noah Berlatsky.
Source: New York Times
4/30/2021
“We are facing the historical and moral responsibility to bring Germany’s colonial past to light and to come to terms with it,” Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture minister, said in a news release.
Source: New York Times
4/30/2021
Mitch McConnell may be joining in with the Republican culture war over civics education to shore up his weak support among Trump voters.
Source: Jerusalem Post
5/2/2021
"The head of the State Forensic Examination Committee of Belarus, Alexei Volkov, said the investigation team will work to identify the bodies at the site."
Source: The New Yorker
5/3/2021
Winfred Rembert spent seven years on a chain gang in Georgia for his civil rights activism. His art commemorates the experience.
Source: The Dispatch
5/3/2021
From a conservative writer's perspective, the conservative movement is at a low moment, without the ability to set the boundaries of policy debates as the Biden administration considers deficit spending and progressive reform.
Source: Associated Press
5/2/2021
Of the five major Native nations whose members owned slaves, only the Cherokee Nation has yet recognized the descendants of people enslaved by Cherokee as tribal members.
Source: New York Magazine
5/2/2021
Two political scientists have concluded that emphasizing the class-based redistribution of policies will help the Democrats win more support. Critics argue that this finding is being used to sweep demands for racial equity under the rug.
Source: Washington Post
5/2/2021
"When a wealthy, liberal California town can’t bring itself to even apologize for seizing land from Black residents a century ago, it underscores what a long road lies ahead for justice and reconciliation."
