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 Atlantic
8/16/2022
With a memoir titled "political prisoner," Paul Manafort "now places himself in the same category as the victims of rape and beatings whose suffering he was once handsomely paid to minimize."
Source: Al Jazeera
8/15/2022
Sacheen Littlefeather appeared in lieu of Marlon Brando to decline his Oscar for "The Godfather" as a protest against racist portrayals of American Indians. The Academy has just now apologized for the abuse she endured during the ceremony and afterward.
Source: New York Times
8/14/2022
Up to two million people were killed in the violence and forced migration prompted by the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947, warning for the present as nationalist sentiment surges in both countries.
Source: Teen Vogue
8/11/2022
by Rebecca Kavanagh
The brainchild of LAPD Chief Darryl Gates, DARE wasn't good at steering kids away from drugs. But it was good at bringing police into schools and encouraging kids to report anyone using drugs to the cops.
Source: NPR
8/10/2022
"Cajuns were punished for speaking French in school, Cajun GIs left the region to fight in the world wars and learned English, the discovery of oil ushered in more English, and television further diluted the language."
Source: New York Times
8/16/2022
by Nona Willis Aronowitz
A half century later, the "sex wars" that split second-wave feminists remain resonant in a society where the display of sexuality sits uneasily with women's ability to pursue desire on their own terms.
Source: The Atlantic
8/12/2022
"They believe that urban people, metropolitan people—disproportionately young and minorities, to be sure, but frankly liberal whites—are an illegitimate brew that’s changing America."
Source: NBC News
8/14/2022
Preservationists like Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, say the commercialization of plantation sites has been happening for decades.
Source: Boston Review
8/10/2022
by Joseph Margulies
A defense attorney and legal expert warns that the harsh sentences imposed on perpetrators of a racist killing help to validate a punitive system of incarceration that overwhelmingly harms people of color.
Source: Forward
8/8/2022
Julius Klein's work as a lobbyist for the West German government involved rehabbing the reputations of former Nazis, and led to his expulsion from the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, the organization whose museum now honors him with a permanent exhibit.
Source: The Atlantic
8/13/2022
by Randy Boyagoda
A professor of English literature argues that it would be a shame for the novelist to be known only for the controversy surrounding his novel The Satanic Verses and the threats made against him and others involved in its publication.
Source: Vox
8/8/2022
It's not unprecedented for Justices to shift their positions when confronted with public outrage, but five of the current members of the court have explicitly declared their indifference to public outcry, and understand there's little to constrain their future decisions.
Source: The Atlantic
8/10/2022
by Kevin Dettmar
"What could the personal documents of a writer who was so public about her private world teach us about her work? How much of that persona was a performance and how much a reflection of her real anxieties and ambitions?"
Source: ProPublica
8/8/2022
Both the Homestake Mining Company and New Mexico state regulators knew almost immediately that a uranium mine opened in 1958 was poisoning local groundwater. They didn't tell local residents, who have been fighting for their lives and for justice.
Source: Michael Smith's Law Blog
8/10/2022
by Michael Smith
The problem with the historical arguments in this term's SCOTUS decisions is that the court isn't "using" history but "choosing" it—deciding whether or not historical examples map onto present beliefs about the legitimacy of rights or regulations.
Source: Forbes
8/9/2022
The building, once the headquarters of the Franklin and Armfield firm, once the largest domestic slave traders in the United States, now houses a reopened museum showing the DC area as a key site of Black history before and after emancipation.
Source: Washington Post
8/8/2022
A suit filed by American Oversight seeks information from the governor's office about how it has used information from a tip line set up to allow Virginians to report teachers who raised "divisive" concepts in their classes.
Source: Washington Post
8/8/2022
William Baude of the University of Chicago argues that if historical arguments have been used selectively in recent cases, it opens the door for dissenting justices to propose more compelling narratives about the constitutional basis of rights.
Source: The Atlantic
8/4/2022
The Oberammergau Passionspiele in the 1930s garnered praise from Hitler for its vilification of Jews for the death of Christ. Today, the village production reflects Germany's efforts to eradicate antisemitism from many of its traditional cultural products, though that process is slow and contentious.
Source: Washington Post
8/9/2022
by Margaret Sullivan
Attempts to ban books from public libraries are a threat to democratic culture and should alarm all Americans, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan.
