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: WCNC
4/11/2021
Political scientist Scott Huffman says that despite claims of fraudulent voting, democracy has historically and recently been threatened more by efforts to restrict the vote.
Source: WWLTV
4/9/2021
The chair was recovered in New Orleans, and two suspects have been arrested with a third at large.
Source: Democracy Docket
3/23/2021
Since the expansion of voting rights by legislation and the courts in the 1960s, conservative legal activists have narrowed ballot access by shifting legal focus from the interests of the voters toward the purported interest of the state in protecting election integrity, balancing a real problem against a largely imaginary one.
Source: Washington Post
4/8/2021
"We are leaderless in a sense. There is no head honcho, and we keep it that way for a very good reason."
Source: New York Times
4/8/2021
"In this case, officials said the reckoning had gone too far, with parents calling the decision to rename 44 schools embarrassing and 'a caricature of what people think liberals in San Francisco do'.”
Source: The Atlantic
4/8/2021
Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment.
Source: Salem News
3/24/2021
Salem (MA) State University's General Counsel disputed that a spreadsheet accidentally relased in response to a records request and circulated by a faculty member constitutes a plan to terminate faculty positions for budgetary reasons. Faculty argue that it is consistent with pressure they face to accept furloughs and doubt administration assurances that retrenchment is off the table.
Source: NPR
4/7/2021
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."
Source: Washington Post
4/6/2021
The group claiming responsibility has issued a ransom demand: the United Daughters of the Confederacy can secure the return of the chair by flying a banner quoting Black radical Assata Shakur over its Richmond, Virginia headquarters.
Source: Washington Post
3/30/2021
"Mr. Liddy’s combination of can-do ruthlessness, loyalty to Nixon and ends-justify-the-means philosophy made him a natural fit in a White House determined to get even with its political enemies."
Source: HuffPost
3/31/2021
A new UK government report on the teaching of the history of slavery and empire has controversially suggested that the institution was an exchange of cultures between British and enslaved African and colonized people, further fueling the British culture war over the teaching of history.
Source: New York Times
3/30/2021
Blake Bailey's new biography of the novelist Philip Roth represented a challenge not least because of Roth's notorious resistance to getting the biographical treatment, but also because of the weakness of the literary biographical tradition in American letters.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/3/2021
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was pushed aside by the NCAA as universities dedicated more resources to women's sports to comply with Title IX. Critics say that the NCAA has not followed through on the need for equity while squeezing out women coaches and athletic administrators.
Source: New York Times
4/6/2021
Political scientist Robert Pape's work suggests that the prime driver of participation in the Capitol Riots was a sense that the election result reflected a threat to the power and influence of whites in American culture, with familiar echoes to racist and nativist movements of the past.
Source: New York Times
4/2/2021
“Can you separate the art from the artist?” is a heated and dogmatic argument these days. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick force the viewer to consider if that separation is possible or desirable.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
4/5/2021
"We took their toy, and we don't feel guilty about it," the letter from the group says. "They never play with it anyway. They just want it there to remind us what they've done, what they are still willing to do.
Source: New York Times
3/30/2021
The need to implement new anticounterfeit measures is a principal source of delay for the goal of putting Harriet Tubman's portrait on the $20 bill.
Source: Bloomberg
3/29/2021
“There are definitely merits to it in the sense that, if people have been harmed by laws, then there should be a discussion about redress,” Bostic told CNN Business in an interview published on its website Monday.
Source: Vice
3/30/2021
The Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal in the 1967 Six Day War stranded several ships in an adjacent lake. Egyptian policy prevented the ships from leaving, but not from having supplies and fresh crew members brought in. For eight years, the ships were a floating international commune.
Source: The New Republic
3/30/2021
A number of the most prominent conservatives holding or running for office in Texas are, in fact, recent arrivals. They echo the influx of pro-slavery fanatics to the Republic of Texas, and also obscure the growing diversity and political moderation of the state's large urban areas.
