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Cal Maritime subscribes to the following publications. You should NEVER have to pay for articles. The links below are not the same as going to the website or searching via Google. Use your Cal Maritime ID and password for off campus access to databases.

New York Times
Browse the World, Business or other sections for ideas of current topics. To register for full access, go to www.nytimes.com/passes & log in with your Cal Maritime email for an academic pass.
The Economist
We have full access to The Economist, you can browse by issue/date or search for specific articles or topics.
The Washington Post
You can browse by date/issue or search by title or topic. This is as current as yesterday.
NPR
A non-profit media organization providing simple facts, analysis and in-depth reporting.

C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window
An open access collection of over 228,000 hours of programming. The Video Library records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are extensively indexed.

Newspaper Databases

Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window
Supports the study of African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Multiracial Americans, and Native Americans, among others, with respect to their cultures, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences. Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, historical documents, and biographies are complemented by primary sources, such as speeches and interviews.
Ethnic News Watch This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive news collection useful for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, magazines, broadcast transcripts and videos.
NewsStream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format

News Magazines

TIME
"Breaking news and analysis from TIME.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science and entertainment news."
Newsweek
"Newsweek provides in-depth analysis, news and opinion about international issues, technology, business, culture and politics."
U.S. News & World Report
"U.S. News & World Report publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis."

News Commentary Sites

Non-Partisan

Interactive Media Bias Chart
The Interactive Media Bias Chart® is a data visualization that displays measures of news (and “news-like”) articles and sources generated by analysts and staff of Ad Fontes Media.
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Read about how they generate the data for the Interactive Media Bias Chart: (https://www.adfontesmedia.com/about-the-interactive-media-bias-chart)
AllSides
See issues and political news with news bias revealed by non-partisan, crowd-sourced ratings.
Media Bias/Fact Check
Media Bias/Fact Check provides ratings for over 2,000 media sources on a scale from Left, Left-Center, "Least Biased," Right-Center, and Right Bias. There are also categories for Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, and satire.
FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Its goal is to "monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases."

Partisan

Fox News
Editorial journalism and commentary with a conservative slant.
Mother Jones
"A reader-supported nonprofit news organization" with a liberal perspective
The Nation
A weekly magazine covering politics and culture. Self-described as "the flagship of the left."
Salon
"Salon covers breaking news, politics, entertainment, culture, and technology through investigative reporting, commentary, criticism, and provocative personal essays." Progressive slant.
Slate
This liberal site focuses on commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture.
Town Hall
Political commentary and analysis from conservative columnists
The Weekly Standard
A weekly conservative magazine and blog

EGL 101 - Stretch English Composition