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Apr 02 2019
News
Facebook and Breaking Up Big Tech
On Saturday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed calling for “new regulation in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability… By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — while also protecting society from broader harms
The Flip SideJun 05 2012
News
DeEvening Links: Up in his business
Havent an a chance to pull out the old Jeffrey E. Thompson C-SPAN screen capture in a while, but today offers an opportunity following Mike Scarcellas National Law Journal report noting that the politically connected businessman is fighting to keep federal investigators eyes off “more than 60 boxes of physical documents and electronic copies of about 23 million pages of documents and records
Washington PostJun 11 2019
News
How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Voters in 2020
Those who made the shift in the last election voted according to their economic interests, and that isn’t about to change.
A central question of the 2020 presidential election is this: What will become of the Obama-to-Trump voters? These voters totaled approximately 6 million and were crucial to the outcome of the 2016 election. Without them, Donald Trump would have lost to Hillary
BloombergFeb 18 2020
Perspectives Blog
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We're seeking people from all over the political spectrum to rate the bias of news articles and headlines "blindly" — without knowing where the content originated. There are no right
AllSides StaffAug 13 2014
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Editorial Philosophy
Editor's Note: Our editorial philosophy was updated October 23, 2017 to reveal more of our own biases (no one is unbiased) as we work to provide a broad, balanced view of news and issues in the face of growing media bias, polarizing filter bubbles and an increasingly divided society. We also felt it was important to point out that we have a bias in favor of free speech and freedom of the press
John Gable, AllSides Co-founderFeb 26 2019
Headline Roundup
Bernie Sanders Gives CNN Town Hall
In a CNN town hall on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders reiterated his support for democratic socialism, which he defined as a system where a living wage, free college tuition, and health care are "human rights." He also promised to fight racism in "all forms," and said that he will "bring a lie detector" if he takes on President Trump in a debate.
HuffPost Washington Times The HillNov 30 2020
Perspectives Blog
A Conservative Who Liberals Often Enjoyed and Respected: Justice Antonin Scalia
Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was deeply conservative. Yet many liberals admired his intellect and his way with words. He was gregarious, and many liberals even considered him a great friend. Even with his biting opinions, he could make liberals think more deeply about their own positions and how to argue them more persuasively.
It was not so much what Justice
Bella JasperFeb 21 2014
Opinion
The myth of ‘settled science’
I repeat: I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I also believe that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30 or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.
“The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist in chief
Charles KrauthammerDec 22 2014
News
Should students carry guns on campus?
Mass shootings at schools and universities in the United States in recent years have put the issue of firearms on campuses at the centre of the gun debate. Many say the lesson is to keep campuses gun-free, but a growing number of students argue if they were allowed to carry guns at college, they'd feel safer.
A former beauty pageant contestant from California, 20-year-old Taylor
BBC NewsJun 11 2014
News
State Education Trends
Long-term trends in academic performance and spending are valuable tools for evaluating past education policies and informing current ones. But such data have been scarce at the state level, where the most important education policy decisions are made. State spending data exist reaching back to the 1960s, but the figures have been scattered across many different publications. State-level
Cato Institute