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 Times of Israel
December 9, 2016
Surge in anti-Semitism, intolerance in wake of US presidential elections ‘alarms’ scholars.
Source: Press Release: National Womens History Project
December 7, 2016
So far there's no hint as to whether he'll act.
Source: CNN
December 6, 2016
The return follows years of protests of US presence in Okinawa.
Source: philly.com
December 5, 2016
They’re students at the College of New Jersey.
Source: The Daily Beast
December 2, 2016
In his 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, the Nobel prize winning author created a demagogue remarkably similar to Trump. He also nailed America’s love affair with demagogues.
Source: NYT
December 1, 2016
With the arrival of any new president, vast troves of information on government websites are at risk of vanishing within days. The fragility of digital federal records, reports and research is astounding.
Source: NYT
December 2, 2016
A gate bearing the Nazi slogan and believed to have been stolen from the concentration camp in 2014 has been found in a suburb of Bergen, Norway.
Source: Time Magazine
December 2, 2016
"The U.S. wanted to avoid what had happened in Germany and Japan where the military had dominated the democracy.”
Source: ProPublica
December 2, 2016
The meaning of the Emoluments Clause is fairly clear. And it all goes back to a diamond-encrusted snuffbox Ben Franklin got from Louis XVI.
Source: Time Magazine
December 1, 2016
Experience the day through the eyes of one survivor.
Source: The Hill
December 1, 2016
The two main proponents of the bipartisan push, which has been going on for years, both have ties to the real estate mogul.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
December 2, 2016
For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement's founding, prophetic leadership and believers. During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic retelling, with fresh details, context and examples of human foibles fleshing out — and sometimes debunking — the familiar facts they have always believed.
Source: The Conversation
December 1, 2016
by Christopher Lloyd
Cultural memory – the recollection of the past through books and films – increases at particular moments in time when the past demands attention.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
December 2, 2016
The government will acknowledge the harm inflicted on Aboriginal communities by the forcible removal of children.
Source: Time Magazine
December 1, 2016
It's more than five years in the making.
Source: The Local
November 26, 2016
Ahead of the presidential election in Austria a Holocaust survivor issued an appeal - now going viral - to young people urging them to think carefully about who they vote for, to stop history from repeating itself.
Source: NYT
December 1, 2016
Five months after his death, Elie Wiesel’s family gathered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday with prominent political figures to honor his contributions to Jewish history and memory.
Source: The Inquirer
November 29, 2016
Topics sensitive to the government are off-limits for Xiaoice.
Source: The Virginia Gazette
November 30, 2016
"They get to not just see it happen, they get to be a part of it happening," Media Project Manager Heather Hower said.
Source: The Washington Post
November 29, 2016
Some people think that racism toward Asians diminished because Asians “proved themselves” through their actions. But that is only a sliver of the truth.
