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: Associated Press
Mar 22, 2023
The move would exempt lessons in state-mandated health instruction, but such courses would require allowing parents to opt out of them. The change could be implemented by the state board of education without legislative approval.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 21, 2023
by Adam Serwer
"To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not."
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 20, 2023
Air Force training films, with their bloodless procedural guidance for launching armageddon, provide a surreal insight into the Cold War that put Kubrick's absurdism to shame (yes, HNN will feature Dr. Strangelove-related content at any opportunity).
Source: Washington Post
Mar 20, 2023
by Alexandra Petri
"American history is full of many heroes, whose accomplishments we will have no problem telling you about in the state of Florida! They fought for justice, which was brave of them, if a little redundant, because there was no specific injustice to fight against."
Source: Foreign Affairs
Mar 19, 2023
by John Walcott
The former head of Knight-Ridder's national security desk explains how his agency passed by the agency bigshots, interviewed experts and analysts closer to the intelligence, and followed up on red flags that others missed in the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, instead of protecting their access to the administration.
Source: The Guardian
Mar 19, 2023
Now, five years after the prominent cosmologist's death, his collaborator Thomas Hertog will release a book updating the wildly popular book that explained cutting-edge theories of the origins of the universe to the reading public.
Source: Miami Herald
Mar 19, 2023
Interviews with Miami Herald reporters show the behind-the-scenes work university faculty and staff are weighing how much compliance will be required with new state laws. The DeSantis administration may achieve more performative than substantive results, but uncertainty and anxiety are common on campus.
Source: NPR
Mar 18, 2023
Although Palm Beach Atlantic University is a private and Christian institution, English instructor Sam Joeckel says that a parent's complaint to the administration that led to his firing goes hand in hand with the efforts of Ron DeSantis to attack higher education in Florida to advance his "anti-woke" crusade.
Source: New York Times
Mar 18, 2023
The New York Times recently reported the claim by Ben Barnes that he and the former Texas governor toured the middle east in 1980 to try to delay the release of hostages to help Ronald Reagan win election.
Source: The Bulwark
Mar 17, 2023
by Norman Ornstein and Dennis Aftergut
The group of Washington centrists floating the possibility of a third-part run are operating from the false premise of a vast middle of the electorate. While such a candidate won't win, it will likely tip the election, something the group's secret donors are probably hoping for.
Source: WNYC
Mar 17, 2023
Three New Yorker writers look at the impact of the Iraq invasion, from the rise of Trump to the collapse of public trust in experts and authority.
Source: Education Week
Mar 16, 2023
The state education commissioner of Florida, Manny Diaz, has insisted that the state is not banning books. Civil liberties and library groups say that vague laws and public threats of prosecution are pushing educators to remove books without technically being forced to do so, which is the point.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 16, 2023
by Adam Serwer
During Reconstruction, the rapid growth of partisan media outlets made it impossible to tell whether stories of Klan atrocities were true or "fake news." Elaine Frantz Parsons explains how the reality of the Klan became established.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 16, 2023
Librarian Mary Grahame Hunter says libraries are places where children's rights and intellectual autonomy are respected. Some in her Michigan community are working to change that.
Source: New York Times
Mar 16, 2023
A bioethicist argued that the judge could have resolved a property dispute without reference to chattel slavery, and that invoking the statue was offensive.
Source: The Baffler
Mar 15, 2023
by Billie Anania
The museum, which counts numerous Nazi sympathizers among its founders, peddles a spurious notion of "double genocide" that lets fascists off the hook by promoting the number of 100 million victims of communism. How do they get that tally? Including every German soldier killed on the eastern front and every victim of COVID-19.
Source: New York Times
Mar 14, 2023
by Dara Lind
A border policy focused on apprehension and driven by social panics about immigration will repeat a cycle of escalation and relaxation without addressing the fundamental human dynamics of migration, argues a border policy scholar.
Source: New York Times
Mar 14, 2023
Elected as a Vietnam war opponent in 1972, Schroeder's service on the Armed Services Commitee helped to change the status of women in the military. She also was a reliable source of a biting political quip and a fierce advocate for women in elected office.
Source: The Nation
Mar 14, 2023
The history of broad organizing in whole industries like automobiles offers both inspiration and caution to workers who see organizing in the service industry as the key to a fairer economy. Two labor experts discuss.
Mar 14, 2023
The leaders of a student movement to resist Tennessee's restrictions on course content charges that their university's faculty senate has failed to give their petition a hearing.
