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: Jacobin
2/1/2022
by Benjamin Morse
Law professors Joseph Fiskin and William Forbath revisit the Reconstruction Amendments to argue that they represent a fusion of a "democracy-of-opportunity" tradition in the law that embraces an affirmative government duty to redistribute wealth.
Source: The Atlantic
1/29/2022
Like Pong and countless predecessors in the code-guessing genre, Wordle's emergence as a cultural phenomenon is due to its familiarity and simplicity.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
1/26/2022
Mississippi's stringent abortion restrictions are the product of a decades-long, cross-denominational project of Christian Dominionism, the view that conservative Christians should control the institutions of society to advance what they consider "Biblical" policies.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
1/25/2022
Stephen Balch, a founder of the conservative National Association of Scholars, is part of the panel advising Texas on its curriculum standards. He has amplified Trump's false claims of election fraud among other controversial positions.
Source: Washington Post
1/31/2022
The latest effort to control history curriculum in the states vaguely prohibits the teaching of negative accounts of US history. Is the point to make all teachers afraid of potentially violating the statute?
Source: Talking Points Memo
1/26/2022
It is perhaps fitting that Cawthorn, who faces a challenge to his eligibility for office based on his endorsement of the march which led to the attack on the Capitol, would invoke an amnesty for Confederates as a defense.
Source: Washington Post
1/24/2022
It's appropriate for Theodore Roosevelt's statue to be removed from its position as a figurehead for the Museum of Natural History, but just as appropriate for the statue to be housed in the new Roosevelt Presidential Library where TR's complicated legacy can be more fully addressed, say the Post's editorial board members.
Source: Substack
1/27/2022
by Jeet Heer
The stated objections to Maus – profanity, nudity, filial disrespect, violence – are impossible to separate from the fact that the book is a graphic history of the Holocaust.
Source: BBC
1/27/2022
Author Art Spiegelman called the decision "Orwellian" and suggested young people would be deprived of knowledge.
Source: TIME
1/24/2022
The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment.
Source: The Atlantic
1/23/2022
by Ted Gioia
The growth in sales in music is coming overwhelmingly from old songs. Can the music industry sustain new performers if money keeps flowing to old catalogues?
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/24/2022
A veteran higher education lawyer says that dire predictions that the Supreme Court will ban race-based affirmative action in admissions; narrowly-tailored diversity initiatives may survive despite the court's broad conservative majority.
Source: NPR
1/24/2022
Former Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) says that the 1887 Electoral Count Act needs to be revised to take away an opening one party could use to contest election results.
Source: The Economist
1/24/2022
The film portrays Chamberlain as less weak-willed and more overconfident in his ability to secure peace.
Source: Forward
1/22/2022
Director Alon Schwartz examines the events in the town of Tantura, where an Israeli militia is alleged to have killed 200 Arab residents. Oral history interviews with surviving members of the militia are key, but controversial, pieces of evidence.
Source: Forward
1/24/2022
The political activist has made a habit of comparing public policies he dislikes to the Holocaust, most recently in a speech at a Washington rally where he invoked Anne Frank.
Source: Texas Monthly
1/22/2022
Director Eva Longoria Bastón's documentary on the 1996 match between Mexican champion Julio César Chávez and LA-born Oscar De La Hoya examines how the fight revealed tensions between Mexican and Mexican-American communities expressed in citizenship, language and sports allegiance.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/24/2022
Judge Mark E. Walker compared the university's restriction of faculty testimony as expert witnesses in cases involving voting rights and mask mandates to the recent crackdowns by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government.
Source: The Nation
1/18/2022
The university's negotiations with its graduate student workers' union show an institution organized around the values of a corporation.
Source: Vanity Fair
1/24/2022
The ousted leader speaks to reporter Gabriel Sherman about the scandal and meltdown that ended his leadership of an evangelical empire.
