Curtis Milam / Philadelphia Inquirer
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
OUTSIDE SOURCES / Thanks to the President
Since his election, Donald Trump has been a mirror, held up to us Americans and propelling us to ask: How did we get here? I am the son...
Jedediah Purdy / The New Yorker
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
Outside Sources / Environmentalism's Racist History
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted...
Austin Sun Staff
- May 28, 2020
- 0 min
Fintan O’Toole / Irish Times
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Outside Sources / The World has Loved, hated and Envied the U.S. Now, for the First Time, We Pity It
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear...
Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min
Outside Sources / How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the...
Hannah Devlin / The Guardian
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Coronavirus distancing may need to continue until 2022, say experts
Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there...
Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...
Daniel Immerwahr / Mother Jones Magazine
- Jul 11, 2019
- 4 min
Outside Sources / No One Called the United States "America" Until It Became an Empire
Adapted from How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. America, as a shorthand for the United States, has a way of...
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
Outside Sources / 'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
For Zoe, the newfound financial security from working in tech does not counterbalance a constant sense of being unsafe in the city. She...
Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
Outside Sources / Goodbye America! Tanks for Everything!
Well, America, it has been great. On the Fourth of July, President Trump and his followers are taking over the Mall and the Lincoln...
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico
- Jul 2, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change
The Trump administration has refused to publicize dozens of government-funded studies that carry warnings about the effects of climate...
Huffington Post
- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Outside Sources / Canadian Cartoonist Loses His Job After Trump Drawing Goes Viral
Cartoonist Michael de Adder’s contract with four Canadian newspapers was terminated last week after one of his political cartoons...
