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: The New Republic
1/6/2023
by Thomas Geoghegan
The Founders would find the debt ceiling a ludicrous concept; it's time to take this instrument of blackmail out of the legislative process. The Biden administration should provoke a court fight over the law as an unconstitutional limit on the government's ability to pay its debts.
Source: New York Magazine
1/3/2023
The current editors of Ms. consider the publication's legacy as a maker, not just a reporter, of news.
Source: Washington Post
1/6/2023
After appointees of Glen Younkin rejected the detailed standards developed in consultation with historians, educators and museum professionals in favor of a stripped-down document with little attention to the history minority groups, a new draft has explicitly mandated discussions of racism in the K-12 curriculum.
Source: NPR
1/7/2023
The availability of clear records tying British families – like that of actor Benedict Cumberbatch – to Caribbean slavery has made the movement for reparations in Barbados and other island nations very visible, if not yet successful.
Source: Firstcoast News
1/4/2022
Does the story of the discrimination Aaron experienced as a teenaged minor-leaguer in Florida run afoul of the state's "Individual Freedom Act"?
Source: The Nation
1/10/2023
by Jacob M. Grumbach
The need for a renewed labor movement is a key component of democratic renewal that is too often ignored by Democratic strategists, says a political scientist who studies antidemocratic politics.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
1/10/2023
Zach Borenstein explains why he painted "Spiritual Genocide" on the base of a campus Confederate memorial, and why he wishes he had talked with local activists first.
Source: New York Times
1/9/2023
If the Korean conflict is often called a "forgotten war," the wall of remembrance added to the Korean War Veterans' Memorial doesn't meet the challenge of remembering the fallen.
Source: New York Times
1/9/2023
Experience as a stain-remover in laundry work helped the teenaged Kaminsky to remove supposedly indelible ink from French ID cards, enabling Jews to escape deportation.
Source: Popular Information
1/9/2023
by Judd Legum
The classroom conduct and public social media statements of a Florida teacher who is exercising the provisions of new legislation to ban books presenting Black perspectives on racism show that the law can easily be hijacked by motivated bigots.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
1/10/2023
by Jacob Ware
With direct support from figures like Steve Bannon and the use of social media to organize a mass attack on the institutions of government, the January 8 attack on the Brazilian government has been molded by the American far right.
Source: The Nation
1/5/2022
by Michael Massing
Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors?
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/3/2023
by Emma Pettit
The governor appears to be trying to document the expenditure of state funds to implement any program, including academic instruction, reated to "Critical Race Theory" or "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" in the state.
Source: Washington Post
1/2/2023
Devon Henry didn't seek the job of removing a dozen Confederate memorials in Richmond, but local white-owned vendors refused the contracts. He has received death threats and wears a bulletproof vest at job sites.
Source: New York Times
1/2/2023
Franjo Tudjman, whose post-Yugoslavia brand of ethnonationalism has been harshly criticized, remains a favorite of the Croatian right. It's unclear how casting Kevin Spacey to play him will help polish his image, however.
Source: Just Security
1/3/2023
by Jon Lewis
A domestic extremism researcher argues that the committee's report lets law enforcement and intelligence agencies off the hook for their evaluation of the theat of right-wing violence at the Capitol and makes a future incident more likely.
Source: Reuters
1/3/2023
Six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews, were killed during the second world war. Poland's nationalist government seeks to void agreements made under Communism to release Germany from liability.
Source: Washington Post
1/3/2022
While the Constitution requires the House to choose it's speaker, it gives no guidance how. Usually custom and party discipline are sufficient to accomplish the task, but not always.
Source: Washington Post
12/30/2022
by Ronald G. Shafer
Kevin McCarthy's unfolding nightmare of failing to unify his party has nothing on the battle to choose a Speaker in 1855 (so far).
Source: The Nation
12/21/2022
by Eric Alterman
Since the 1970s, an alliance between Christian and Jewish conservatives has been brokered over mutual support for Israel's occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Are changing attitudes toward the occupation among American Jews and the naked antisemitism of the MAGA right breaking the alliance?
