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
Dec 6, 2022
Pong's develper and Atari cofounder Allan Alcorn: "I didn't think the company would last long because most startup companies didn't. And so I thought it would fail after a while, but it'd be a lot of fun."
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2022
Quirky custom or exercise in cutthroat depravity? The roots of White Elephant trace back to the 1890s.
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2022
The institution's historical left-leaning roots are coming into conflict with the New School administration's efforts to shift teaching labor to temporary, adjunct and contingent faculty and intransigence in bargaining with their union.
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2022
Luce helped expose the torture and human rights abuses carried out by the government of South Vietnam, and campaigned against the war after being expelled from South Vietnam as an aid worker.
Source: Mother Jones
Dec 6, 2022
In 1818, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina sent John Quincy Adams a fake document that made it look like Pinckney was a principal author of the 1787 Constitution. At the time, the ruse was rejected. Why are Supreme Court conservatives looking to this document in to justify their decisions?
Source: Washington Post
Dec 5, 2022
Software engineer Daniel Patt has developed an artificial intelligence program that can expedite the searching of photos from repositories like Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has provided strangers with the gift of a connection to their relatives.
Source: The Progressive
Dec 5, 2022
by Peter Greene
The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 4, 2022
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has explained his presence in an anti-integration mob as an innocent coincidence. As the most powerful owner in the NFL, he likewise leads an organization that exhibits racial inequality without anyone feeling responsible for it.
Source: ProPublica
Dec 3, 2022
The government has failed to regulate or control groundwater pollution from the uranium mines that built America's nuclear arsenal.
Source: Science
Dec 2, 2022
Recognizing the social construction of "race" categories, geneticists have largely stopped using the term. Is this because they have abandoned the idea of profound divisions among human populations, or have they adapted other terminology to perform the same function?
Source: Foreign Policy
Dec 2, 2022
Military commanders in Eastern Europe have long tried to deal with the effects of bitter winter on morale and logistics. How is it likely to affect the Ukrainian counterattack against Russia?
Source: Washington Post
Dec 1, 2022
The uranium at Coles Hill is potentially worth billions of dollars.
Source: The Baffler
Dec 1, 2022
It's impossible to consider the full meaning of privacy in society because courts and popular culture have construed the term to mean a kind of property that can be properly or improperly appropriated by another, instead of a kind of social relationship.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 30, 2022
"We know, at least in the abstract, what happened in the days and years after this photo of Jones was taken. He was there and he is here."
Source: Politico
Nov 30, 2022
"Both Sarasota and Brevard’s school boards put the superintendents on the chopping block the same day that new members endorsed by DeSantis and conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty were sworn into office."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 30, 2022
by Jeffrey Sachs
One leading commenter on questions of academic freedom evaluates the criticism of an oganization on the front lines, concluding that many critics are asking silly questions and leaving significant ones aside.
Source: New York Magazine
Nov 30, 2022
The regime of Precision-Scheduled Railroading (PSR) has yielded immense profits but cannot accommodate unexpected worker absences. The current impasse is happening because executives and stockholders refuse to abandon the system.
Source: The New Yorker
Nov 29, 2022
by Jay Caspian Kang
While public support for unions has grown in recent years, it's not clear if the public understands that the working class is now likely to be involved in knowledge work. The strike by University of California graduate workers hopes to change that.
Source: The New Republic
Nov 29, 2022
A "black turtleneck uprising" of museum workers and adjunct professors tells us that brain work has become gig work, challenging cherished myths about education, opportunity and meritocracy.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 28, 2022
At least 39 faculty members were forced out of Florida universities under the Johns Committee's investigation of alleged homosexual behavior. But the figure doesn't include the other lives and careers wrecked by the crusade.
