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: NPR
6/11/2022
The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.
Source: The New Yorker
6/14/2022
Isaac Chotiner interviews former federal prosecutor and current law professor Barbara McQuade about the prospects of a criminal case against Trump over January 6.
Source: HuffPost
6/13/2022
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
Source: The Intercept
6/13/2022
If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal.
Source: The Baffler
6/9/2022
by Kathryn Judge
The internet's promise to cut out any number of middlemen from the consumer experience has been a failure.
Source: New Statesman
6/9/2022
by John Ganz
There's something familiar about a secular nationalist movement that mobilizes property owners through a narrative of national decline and the promise of controlling or purging enemies of a unified people through force, recently described in a Times op-ed. If only there were a word for it....
Source: Al Jazeera
6/8/2022
While calling Belgian colonial rule "unjustifiable and racist" King Philippe did not go so far as to issue an apology.
Source: Politico
6/8/2022
by Diana Greene Foster
The author has systematically studied the consequences to women of having an abortion or having that freedom denied. She explains what to expect when states are free to outlaw abortion: more child poverty, more maternal death, and reduced opportunities for women, with the poor getting the worst of it.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/8/2022
Suzanne Nossel of PEN America argues that legislation that dictates what can be taught is at "the top of the pyramid" in terms of the broad array of threats to free speech on campuses.
Source: Washington Post
7/3/2022
by Gillian Brockell
A university task force convened last year to investigate the provenance of human remains in Harvard's museums and collections condemned the leak of the report while defending their committee's work toward returning remains to appropriate tribal authorities and memorializing the deceased.
Source: Washingtonian
6/2/2022
While Rachel Carson's suburban Washington home is a national landmark, there is as yet no place for the public to engage with her life and work.
Source: CNN
6/4/2022
Angry parents yelling at school board meetings present a picture of these authors' work that they find unrecognizable. Read what several targeted authors say about their books.
Source: The Atlantic
6/6/2022
by John Temple
"Maybe one day some editors will have a picture of a dead child even more powerful than the one we published that will finally make a difference."
Source: The New Yorker
5/26/2022
Australia, Britain and Canada took decisive and successful steps to reduce mass shootings since the 1990s.
Source: National Interest
6/4/2022
by Hugh DeSantis
The US and NATO must use the leverage of arms supplies to push Ukraine to negotiate with Russia or risk an interminable – and wider – conflict.
Source: Boston Review
6/6/2022
by Harmony Goldberg and Erica Smiley
The organizers of the Staten Island Amazon union mobilized a broad sense of justice politics not limited to the workplace. It remains to be seen how they can win allies in labor and the government to continue to organize against a wealthy and hostile company.
Source: NPR
6/6/2022
While the Watergate hearings of 1973 made chairman Sam Ervin a household name and publicized the crimes of Watergate and the Nixon campaign, it's unlikely the January 6 Committee can follow that act.
Source: The Atlantic
5/30/2022
Mark Rozzo's "Everybody Thought We Were Crazy" tells the story of artistic encounters that ran through the couple's home.
Source: Washington Post
6/7/2022
Mitchell didn’t have a grasp of the specifics of her husband’s involvement in Watergate, Bernstein told me, “but what she was so right about from the beginning was the coverup.”
Source: Washington Post
5/29/2022
Baby formula companies have committed serious ethical lapses in the recent past, but that doesn't mean that a return to universal breastfeeding of babies is possible or even desirable.
