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: Washington Post
3/6/2023
The Rand Corporation found that a quarter of teachers of math, science and English were revising their lesson plans to remove topics on race and gender, with fear of parents being the biggest reason.
Source: CBS News
3/5/2023
Heumann translated her own battle for inclusion into a movement to advance the rights and standing of people with disabilities in the United States through protest and legislation.
Source: New York Times
3/5/2023
The government of South Korea has dropped its demand for Japanese companies to pay victims of forced labor during World War II. Many Koreans have called the concession a national humiliation, and some surviving victims say they won't accept compensation from Korean sources.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
3/7/2023
by Will Bunch
After Trump's CPAC speech promised that he'd be an instrument of retribution against his followers' enemies, it's time to stop tiptoeing around the historic parallels, writes columnist Will Bunch.
Source: Tampa
3/4/2023
by Aaron Hillegas
Courting Trump's base by copying his message that "stewardship is for suckers," a New College professor warns that DeSantis has appointed "chuckleheads" to run the college, something that won't end well for anyone.
Source: The Nation
2/24/2023
by Guillaume Long
After Obama removed Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, Trump reinstalled it for petty political reasons. The Biden administration should reverse the decision again.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/1/2023
T.C. Williams donated a considerable sum to the University of Richmond's law school. He also relied on slave labor in his tobacco and manufacturing businesses. The university's new policy requires them to remove his name from a building. Descendants call this hypocritical and ungrateful and demanded an inflation-adjusted refund with interest of $3.4 billion.
Source: 19th News
2/23/2023
As new restrictive legislation in many states threatens the teaching of African American history, the example of southern Freedom Schools is being followed in local and online communities.
Source: Washington Post
3/1/2023
Gen X or Milennial parents who buy their children some of the popular dolls-with-a-back-story are in for some bad news about how long ago their own childhoods were.
Source: New York Times
2/27/2023
The Florida governor's book attempts to hide his aggressively right-wing policy agenda around education, abortion, and voting rights behind platitudes about hard work and conviction. A reviewer says its hard to imagine the volume winning converts.
Source: Foreign Policy
2/23/2023
by Matthew Duss
A left foreign policy analyst argues that labeling opposition to Ukraine's NATO membership as "pro-Putin" echoes the worst moves of the runup to the Iraq war, and that good policy grows from open discussion.
Source: The New Yorker
2/27/2023
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The industrial age miracle of phosphorus fertilizer production revolutionized agricultual yields. Today, humanity faces a twin crisis of the mineral's scarcity and the toxicity of the algae that it feeds with farm runoff.
Source: The Nation
2/27/2023
The film's most important contribution is to remind that the rule of law must be maintained.
Source: The Nation
2/28/2023
Ron DeSantis's education policies are driven by what will rile up the most reactionary voters in the state and have little do do with rectifying the growing problems with student achievement and teacher retention that are actually putting the state's schools in crisis, argue two Floridian writers.
Source: WPSD
2/23/2023
Members of the People for Black History group argued that uncomfortable aspects of the state's and nation's history can't be skipped over.
Source: Baltimore Magazine
2/25/2023
The Robert Moses-designed expressway displaced Black families and neighborhoods for a stub of a freeway that ultimately stretched for less than two miles and does not connect to the rest of the interstate system.
Source: Washington Post
2/24/2023
The real story of "Pablo Escobear" involves far less action by the bear and much more by a ring of smugglers during the cocaine boom of the 1980s.
Source: The Atlantic
2/22/2023
While much of Nazism was associated with destruction, it's racist ideological core was also preoccupied with creating or restoring racial purity, including through the Lebensborn program which viewed officers of the SS as the fathers of a new Aryan vanguard.
Source: The Atlantic
2/27/2023
It's rare for a biopic to attempt artistic innovation. A critic offers a list of those that succeed.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/27/2023
DeSantis ally Chris Rufo tweeted that the bill "is channeling the sentiment of the voters, who have demanded that taxpayer dollars stop subsidizing left-wing racialist ideology and partisan political activism. Democracy returns.”
