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: Mother Jones
Jan 24, 2023
The American effort to bring the French RU-486 medication to the domestic market made medical abortion much more widely accessible. But, in true American fashion, the involvement of private investors looking for profit also made it much more expensive—even more so after Dobbs.
Source: Oxford American
Jan 24, 2023
by Jewel Wicker
Do the racial politics of musical genre explain why songs about revenge are celebrated in country music and turned into evidence for the prosecution against hip hop artists (even when the songs in question are fiction)?
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 24, 2023
Law professor Rohan Grey discusses the history of the debt ceiling law and why minting a giant denomination coin might be the least stupid option should Congress refuse to raise the ceiling.
Source: The Nation
Jan 23, 2023
The collection of transcripts from Rush's radio program emphasizes the positive ways he built solidarity with his audience while occluding the negative ways he maintained it by stirring resentments against others and lying about his political opponents.
Source: NPR
Jan 23, 2023
At its 80th anniversary, it's appropriate to honor the classic film by focusing on the waves of Europeans fleeing Nazi persecution and working to fight back.
Source: The King Center
Jan 22, 2023
"The children are waiting for you to step up, stop the propaganda and disinformation and show them how you will stand for justice and truth. The King Center stands ready to help facilitate a win-win outcome to the conflict around the AP African American Studies Curriculum."
Source: New York Times
Jan 21, 2023
The state has contended that the curriculum prioritizes indoctrination over education, but their claims distort the meaning of some key terms.
Source: The New Republic
Jan 20, 2023
Consumption taxes are successful when they target luxury purchases and the rich. A broad-based consumption tax like the one proposed by House Republicans to replace the income tax would be suicidal to even bring to a vote.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 20, 2023
The author discovered that playing fast and loose with facts was more acceptable in fashionable literary circles than it was in court, though he escaped further reckoning for twisting his interviews with imprisoned men for sensational impact.
Source: American Association of University Professors
Jan 20, 2023
"That the only ideas the presidents wish to suppress relate to race is revealing."
Source: HellGate
Jan 20, 2023
by Allison Chomet
The proposed cuts to library staffing, on the heels of cuts to public schools, city colleges, and social service agencies reflect the way that culture war panics about book content and drag story hours connect to the politics of austerity and privatization, even in liberal big cities.
Source: Vice
Jan 20, 2023
by Leigh Hurwitz
Teens are receiving a message loud and clear from new state laws restricting the content of classrooms and libraries: Politicians want people like them to disappear. Defending access to library books is vital.
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Jan 20, 2023
"The national organization, founded in 1915, stated it was 'appalled at the blatant violation of academic freedom' and said it was exploring options, including an investigation and possible censure."
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jan 19, 2023
From the office-sized computer to the landline, plot points that hinge on obsolete technology are a fun way to track how technologies structure our lives and our anxieties.
Source: Jewish Currents
Jan 19, 2023
When journalists turn to representatives of legacy Jewish organizations as authentic voices of American Jewry, they often end up generating reporting about antisemitism that strips away historical nuance and fails to accurately describe the forces driving attacks on Jews today.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Jan 19, 2023
State and local governments are required under the Fair Housing Act to examine and act to eliminate patterns of discrimination in housing within their boundaries. The federal purse has seldom been used as leverage to ensure they comply.
Source: NPR
Jan 18, 2023
The paper had for years run an abridged version of 1963 speech to the March on Washington—which excluded King's discussions of systemic racism and race-targeted remedies for discrimination—but faced intense criticism this year from readers concerned with the politicization of history.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jan 17, 2023
by Ilya Shapiro and Christopher Rufo
Two prominent critics of "wokeness" and "critical race theory" in higher education lay out their suggestions for how state legislators can enact the changes they want to see in public colleges and universities—outside of changes to the curriculum.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 17, 2023
While both British and American politics have become bitterly polarized and dysfunctional, the embrace by American leaders on the right of conspiracy theories as a uniquely American phenomenon.
Source: NPR
Jan 17, 2023
Former Pentagon Special Counsel Oona Hathaway says that an excess of classification makes government accountability difficult to achieve, as well as contributing to potential criminality.
