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 Nation
10/26/2022
Parts of eastern North Carolina are a living historical counterfactual: Black families there have been more successful than elsewhere in holding title to farm land against the encroachment of industry and discriminatory credit.
Source: Bolts
10/27/2022
Felon disenfranchisement dates back to Florida's first constitution in 1838; after Florida's voters approved a constitutional amendment, Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has instituted loopholes to prevent people from exercising that right and making public arrests that are likely to make many convicted Floridians think better of trying.
Source: CNN
10/27/2022
Tudor Dixon used a far-right streaming network to make this claim in 2020; she also has made unfounded claims about abortion and schools teaching socialist ideology.
Source: New York Times
10/27/2022
Musical collaborators and artists later influenced by Stevie Wonder's declaration of musical independence explain the album's creation and impact.
Source: The Guardian
10/27/2022
The National Security Archive has released an English translation of the account of a Soviet submarine officer of events in October 1962 tells the story of how his vessel's commander nearly launched nuclear weapons against US Navy ships enforcing the quarantine of Cuba.
Source: The Guardian
10/27/2022
Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country.
Source: National Interest
10/26/2022
by Steve Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb
Russia has retained much of the Soviet-era's top-down command structure, which removes decisionmakers from both the real-world context and consequences of big decisions. This presents a danger that those leaders will misundersand the catastrophic result of a nuclear bomb.
Source: New York Times
10/26/2022
The theft reflects contemporary Russian nationalists' view of Potemkin as the intellectual progenitor of a Greater Russia.
Source: Politico
10/24/2022
Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials.
Source: NPR
10/21/2022
Modeled on legislation in Florida and other states, proponents say the legislation, a priority if Republicans retake the House, will protect children. Critics say its intention is to marginalize LGBTQ Americans.
Source: Washington Post
10/20/2022
Although it's impossible to know exactly how many children of enslaved people survive, all of those interviewed by author Sana Butler for a 2009 book have sinced passed away, nearly closing a living link to the past.
Source: New York Times
10/17/2022
The French and Algerian governments have both played up the gesture of reconciliation, without acknowledging that the provenance of the remains is dubious (only 6 are documented to be the skulls of Algerian resistance fighters) and they remain French property.
Source: The New Republic
10/25/2022
by Timothy Noah
Actress Jayne Mansfield was killed in a 1967 traffic accident; a truck trailer safety regulation review prompted in part by her highly public demise was finally implemented in 1996, after nearly 9,000 people were killed in similar crashes. Why? Blame a bipartisan faith in economists as policymakers.
Source: The New Republic
10/27/2022
Is panicky use of weak historical analogies driving economic policy back to the 1970s when the country is still suffering from the fallout of the first round of austerity politics?
Source: BBC
10/24/2022
The New River Gorge is one of the newest National Parks. Beyond natural beauty, the region allows visitors to learn the history of African American coal miners and their communities in West Virginia.
Source: New York Times
10/24/2022
In his pre-confirmation interview with the Senator, Alito claimed he wrote antiabortion legal memos because he wanted to please his bosses in the Reagan administration. This failed to reassure Kennedy, who voted against his nomination and wrote skeptically of the judge's integrity in his diary.
Source: The New Republic
10/19/2022
The recorded remarks in a council meeting show that while Angelenos have been encouraged to vote along ethnic lines, their representatives have been more intersted in catering to politically powerful landlords and developers.
Source: ScienceNews
10/13/2022
Evidence of separate clusters of urbanization on islands separated by marshland suggests that ancient Lagash did not grow out from one administrative and ceremonial center but was a polycentric urban zone.
Source: Washington Post
10/17/2022
Popular understanding of the history of science and the contemporary role of women in STEM is undermined by the further underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia biography pages. Jess Wade is working to change that.
Source: NBC News
10/19/2022
Although the decision to delay a Congressionally-mandated release should not be taken as proof of any assassination conspiracy theories, historians argue the documents are necessary to fully understand a tumultuous period in the nation's history.
