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: Snopes
July 22, 2016
But some believed it was true.
Source: DiversityInc
July 20, 2016
Only 18 out of 2,472 delegates in Cleveland are Black, the lowest percentage in over a century.
Source: The Washington Post
July 19, 2016
by Richard Moe
Bears Ears represents the most important and intact array of unprotected cultural resources on federal land.
Source: Time Magazine
July 20, 2016
Lessons from 1968
Source: The Washington Post
July 20, 2016
The GOP congressman says Western civilization is better and Westerners shouldn't apologize for that.
Source: The Washington Post
July 20, 2016
As an Eastern European who attended school after the fall of communism, she might not.
July 14, 2016
In an interview with Jon Meacham, Trump said "they could have settled without going to war."
Source: The Washington Times
July 19, 2016
So says Craig Shirley.
Source: Salon
July 20, 2016
by Paul Rosenberg
Liberals say it’s factually not true.
Source: The Guardian
July 19, 2016
Melania Trump, accused of lifting passages from a speech by Michelle Obama, is not the first to face such allegations.
Source: Newsweek
July 19, 2016
The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.
Source: NYT
July 18, 2016
On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump was conspicuously trying to conjure somebody else: Richard M. Nixon.
Source: Grammarly
7-18-16 (date accessed)
Less complex language correlates with higher poll results for Republican politicians, while simpler rhetoric corresponds to lower poll results for Democrats.
Source: Salon
July 16, 2016
Nominating conventions have a often been a venue for chaos, incompetence and embarrassment.
Source: NYT
July 16, 2016
The divisions caused by the Spanish Civil War, and the decades of dictatorship it ushered in, ending only with Franco’s death in November 1975, continue to ripple through Spain.
Source: NYT
July 14, 2016
The site is believed to be where Suleiman the Magnificent spent his last night before 50,000 of his Ottoman soldiers sacked a nearby fortress defended by 2,500 Christians led by Miklos Zrinyi, a local Croatian-Hungarian nobleman.
Source: Business Day Live
July 13, 2016
Germany plans to formally apologise to Windhoek for the genocide of indigenous Namibians a century ago, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday, but added that the move would not carry any obligation of reparations.
Source: Think Progress
July 13, 2016
The founding fathers did not see the same need to preserve an illusion that the Court is above politics.
Source: NBC News
July 12, 2016
A textbook on Mexican-American history that some scholars and activists say is poorly written and contains "racist" passages is on a list of proposed books for use in Texas public schools.
Source: dam.gov
July 13, 2016
The National Museum of Aleppo was attacked in the recent days, by the fall of a large number of missiles and explosive bombs.