Perspectives Blog AllSides

5 Ways to Handle Political Conversations at Thanksgiving Dinner

Bias

/ November 15th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

Thanksgiving.jpg

We often think of Thanksgiving as a time when we relax with family and friends, stuff ourselves silly — and maybe apologize for burning the casserole. But aside from all the revelry, Thanksgiving can also bring uncomfortable political conversations. Thanksgiving is truly a time when we’re...

Tags:

Thanksgiving Message

Thanksgiving

Bias

Polarization

Political Polarization

Bridging America's Divide

bridging divides

Dialogue

civil discourse

Dialog

civility

After A Deeply Polarized Election, What's Next for the U.S.?

Bias

/ November 13th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

DayofTolerance-blogpost.jpg

After a deeply polarized election, what's next for the U.S.? Despite the pervasiveness of technologies that connect us, it seems our communities are more deeply divided and polarized than ever. Media bias is only making things worse. It's time to break out of our filter bubbles. Let's go...

Tags:

Discussion

Bridging America's Divide

bridging divides

Dialogue

Dialog

Midterm Results: Democrats Take the House, Republicans Expand Senate Majority

News

/ November 8th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

4637c7de-8ee7-462e-9054-b3e3855480e9-AP_Election_2018_Senate_ORourke_Texas.jpeg

With the close of the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats will take control of the House, while Republicans will expand their Senate majority. Some lauded the campaign successes of Democrats, who will now have the power to exert a check on President Trump after flipping several Republican...

Tags:

Elections

Midterms

Politics

Story of the Week

News

Media Weigh in on Midterms as Election Day Approaches

News

/ November 1st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

download.jpeg

With the Nov. 6 midterm elections approaching, media outlets are analyzing the pivotal factors that will influence many of the tight races across the country and the likely outcomes on Election Day. Some have criticized President Trump's approach to key issues and say that it will...

Tags:

Elections

Midterms

Story of the Week

News

Media Bias Fuels Political Violence in America. Can We Change?

Bias

/ November 1st, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

paper.jpg

A string of violent incidents in October further illuminated political polarization in America, raising serious concerns about how media bias contributes to hateful division — and how we must change this to heal our divide. In just the last two weeks, multiple incidents of political...

Tags:

Media Bias

Media Watch - Media Bias

Media Watch/Media Bias

Polarization

Political Polarization

Violence

Violence in America

Election

Technology

Social Media

Pittsburgh Shooting

bomb threat

Google bias

Google

Mail Bombs Sent to Prominent Democrats, Sparking Debate Around Civility in Politics

News

/ October 26th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

181024142548-trump-suspicious-packages-statement-oct-24-super-169.jpg

A suspect has been apprehended and charged with sending 13 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats as well as CNN, a crime spree that sparked fervor around the state of incivility in modern-era politics. Many have said President Trump shares much of the blame, particularly with his history of...

Tags:

Polarization

civility

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Google News is Heavily Biased — But It's Not Rigged

Bias

/ October 23rd, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

googleblogpost.jpg

An extensive report by AllSides reveals Google News is biased against conservatives, but there is no evidence that Google News bias is intentionally rigged. In August, President Trump claimed Google is “rigged” against him, and that Google is “suppressing voices of conservatives.”...

Tags:

Google bias

Google News bias

Bias

bias against conservatives

Google

Report

Media Bias

Media Watch - Media Bias

Media Watch/Media Bias

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Sparks Global Outrage Over Saudi Human Rights Abuses

News

/ October 18th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-10-18 at 6.26.50 PM.png

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and longtime critic of the regime in Saudi Arabia, was allegedly murdered at the Saudi consulate on October 2, sparking global outrage over human rights abuses at the hands of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. While Saudi Arabia has...

Tags:

Middle East

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia

Free Speech

Story of the Week

News

Deepfake: When You Can't Believe Your Eyes

Bias

/ October 15th, 2018 / By Eric W. Austin

fakedfootageblog.jpg

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Town Line newspaper . Fake news. Fake videos. Fake photos. The way things are heading, the 21st century is likely to be known as the Fake Century, and it’s only going to get worse from here. About a year ago, I came across a short BBC...

Tags:

Bias

Media

Media Bias

Polarization

Political Polarization

hyper-partisanship

Partisanship

Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to Supreme Court, Ending Fierce Partisan Battle

News

/ October 11th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

RTS244IC.jpg

Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday after a fierce partisan battle that reverberated throughout the country. Kavanaugh's supporters say that he was rightly elevated to the high court, with some asserting that the Democrats' politicization of his confirmation...

Tags:

Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh

Political Polarization

Christine Blasey Ford

Elections

Midterms

Midterm Elections

Story of the Week

News

Proposal to Ban Classroom Political Discussions Will Only Hurt Students and Civil Discourse

Recommended Reading

/ October 10th, 2018 / By JGable

schools-blog2.jpg

A Pennsylvania proposal to ban political discussion in the classroom aims to prevent political indoctrination — but it would only facilitate it. Will Tallman’s (R) “Teacher Code of Ethics” bill would ban educators from endorsing or opposing political candidates or issues in the classroom...

Tags:

Updated Media Bias Ratings: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vox, and more

Bias

/ October 8th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

UpdatedMediaBiasRatings-blog.jpg

AllSides Media Bias Ratings are fluid and subject to change as media outlets evolve over time or we acquire new information. This is why t he AllSides team recently decided to review a number of media outlets in our quest to provide unbiased news. We determined the following media bias...

Tags:

Media Bias

conservative media

liberal media

Media

Media Watch - Media Bias

bias ratings

Journalism

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Vox

Time Magazine

U.S. and Canada Reach New Trade Pact to Supersede NAFTA

News

/ October 4th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

im-29279.jpeg

The U.S. and Canada on Sunday reached a new trilateral trade deal with Mexico which will supersede the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Supporters of the revised pact, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), have characterized it as a win for free trade, while...

Tags:

Trade

NAFTA

USMCA

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Ford and Kavanaugh Testify, Leaving Senators to Grapple With His Confirmation

News

/ September 28th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

27kav1-superJumbo.jpg

Both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday delivered emotional testimony about allegations of sexual assault against the judge, sending waves through Washington as lawmakers grapple with whether or not he should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Ford's supporters say that...

Tags:

Supreme Court

sexual misconduct

Brett Kavanaugh

Christine Blasey Ford

US Senate

Story of the Week

News

Brett Kavanaugh: All You Need to Know

News

/ September 27th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

kav.jpg

Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination has been rife with partisanship, with a series of tense confirmation hearings followed by testimony of alleged sexual misconduct made against him by Dr. Chrisine Blasey Ford. See coverage from across the political spectrum as media outlets weigh...

Tags:

Supreme Court

sexual misconduct

Brett Kavanaugh

Christine Blasey Ford

Tech Companies May Be Stifling Conservative Speech. Can They Change?

Bias

/ September 26th, 2018 / By JGable

phone-blogpost.jpg

Differences in the way liberals and conservatives view appropriate speech affects what we see online — and can lead to silencing. The Department of Justice and state attorneys general met Tuesday to discuss whether social media companies are “intentionally stifling the free exchange of...

Tags:

Bias

Media Bias

bias against conservatives

Conservatives

Social Media

Technology companies

Technology

Facebook

YouTube

Justice Department

Free Speech

Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Reignite #MeToo Debate

News

/ September 20th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

im-26762.jpeg

Senators have officially delayed the confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid the sexual assault allegations against him, reigniting debate over the merits of the #MeToo movement. Some contend the 36-year-old accusation is unsubstantiated and politically motivated...

Tags:

sexual misconduct

Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh

Christine Blasey Ford

Story of the Week

News

The Power of Persuasion (or Lack Thereof)

Bias

/ September 19th, 2018 / By Dakota Marlega

comingtogether.jpg

For as long as I can remember, I have had an innate love for two things (amongst many others, of course): genuine dialogue and compulsively checking my email. Never in my life did I think the two would coincide until one fateful summer morning when I was forwarded an email from a college...

Tags:

Bridging America's Divide

bridging divides

Living Room Conversations

New York Times Anonymous Op-Ed Met With Mixed Reviews

News

/ September 13th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-09-13 at 4.13.37 PM.png

A senior official in the Trump administration wrote an anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times claiming they are working to "thwart" parts of the president's agenda as well as his "worst inclinations". Some have said the approach was cowardly and only confirms previously held...

Tags:

White House

New York Times

Media Bias

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Spark Partisan Feud

News

/ September 6th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-swearing-in-2.jpg

Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings began on Tuesday, sparking heated debate across the aisle as the nominee could change the high court's makeup for decades . Opponents claim that his record will damage liberal causes, particularly women's rights, same-sex marriage, and...

Tags:

Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh

Story of the Week

News

Media Bias Update: Drudge Report

News

/ September 6th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

DrudgeReport-blogpost.jpg

AllSides Media Bias Ratings are fluid and subject to change as media outlets change over time, or we acquire new information. AllSides previously rated The Drudge Report , an American news aggregation website, as having a Right media bias , but in August 2018, we conducted an editorial...

Tags:

conservative media

Media Bias

Media

Media Watch - Media Bias

Media Watch

President Trump Accuses Google of Bias Against His Administration

News

/ August 30th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

lead_720_405.png

President Trump on Tuesday accused Google of manipulating its search engine to display negative coverage of his administration after Paula Bolyard published an article on the conservative site PJ Media alleging that 96% of results for "Trump" news were from left-leaning outlets . Many on...

Tags:

Media Bias

Technology

Google

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Manafort and Cohen Courtroom Drama: How Will It Impact President Trump?

News

/ August 23rd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

082218cohenplea_640x360.jpg

After President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on eight counts of fraud and Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to several criminal charges, media personalities are split as to how it will impact the president . Some argue that the developments...

Tags:

Politics

Russia

Michael Cohen

Paul Manafort

Donald Trump

Robert Mueller

Story of the Week

News

Media Bias Monday: Why AllSides Can't Always Cover All Sides

Bias

/ August 20th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

Right- blogpostFB.jpg

On Sunday, AllSides posted a headline roundup titled, "Facebook Apologizes After PragerU Says the Social Media Site "Heavily Censored" Its Videos." You may have noticed the headline roundup did not include any Left or Center media outlets: Screen Shot 2018-08-19 at 6.13.38 PM.png AllSides...

Tags:

Media Bias

conservative media

liberal media

Roughly 350 Newspapers Rebuke President Trump's Attacks on the Media: Necessary Step or Futile Exercise?

News

/ August 17th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

newspaper.jpg

A chorus of roughly 350 newspapers across the country joined together on Thursday to condemn President Trump's recent rhetoric criticizing the press. The initiative came at The Boston Globe’s request . Their Editorial Board urged publications “liberal and conservative, large and small” to...

Tags:

Media Bias

Donald Trump

News

Tuesday's Midterm Primaries: Democrats Select Progressives, Republicans Opt for Trump-Endorsed Candidates

News

/ August 16th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

080818-balderson-trump-feature.jpg

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Vermont voters on Tuesday selected nominees for the midterms, cementing the final choices for the upcoming November elections. While outlets across the aisle highlighted a string of Republican victories for candidates endorsed by President Trump,...

Tags:

Elections

Midterms

Story of the Week

News

Tech Platforms Ban Infowars' Alex Jones, Citing Hate Speech Violations

News

/ August 9th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

FZHCDTE3JQI6RDK6Y3CZIASJKQ.jpg

Facebook, Apple, Youtube, and Spotify have all banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of Infowars, citing hate speech violations. Although Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey originally stated that the platform would not censor Jones' content, the company also removed several of his videos and tweets...

Tags:

Technology

Alex Jones

Infowars

Facebook

YouTube

Apple

Spotify

Story of the Week

News

Fact Check: Is Trump's Star Being Removed from the Walk of Fame?

News

/ August 7th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

trumpstar.JPG

Is Donald Trump's star being removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Judging from many of today's headlines, you would think so. But any media consumers who read only the headlines might be misled. Take a look at the following headlines. You would think that Trump's star is being removed...

Tags:

Donald Trump

Hollywood

Walk of Fame

Bias

Media Bias

Fact Check

Plastic Straw Bans: Government Overreach or Necessary Regulation?

News

/ August 2nd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Reason-cocktailsword.jpg

Seattle and San Francisco recently voted to ban plastic straws, citing the effects on marine life. Some argue that the move is an example of government overreach and will have a negligible impact on the environment, while others say it is a crucial first step to help protect oceans...

Tags:

Environment

Plastic Straws

Story of the Week

News

What Type of Follower Are You?

News

/ August 2nd, 2018 / By Debilyn Molineaux

Screen Shot 2018-07-23 at 8.56.15 AM.png

Since I saw this YouTube video on The First Follower , I’ve been fascinated by who follows whom, and why? We often see analyses of various leadership styles—but why do we follow people with one or two styles but not others? Could our follower-style be the real difference between success...

Tags:

Michael Cohen Releases Tape of President Trump Discussing Payment to Former Model

News

/ July 26th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

3f2f6282-b4be-4a6f-a3e0-2be33def6d34-GTY_1004878066.jpeg

President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen recorded a conversation where the two discussed a payment made to a former Playboy model who alleges she had an affair with Trump—an accusation the president had repeatedly denied. Some argue that the tape could be detrimental to the Trump...

Tags:

Politics

Michael Cohen

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

NEW Media Bias Ratings: Quillette, Jubilee Media, Current Affairs Magazine

Bias

/ July 24th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

NowOnAllSides-Quillette-Jubilee-CurrentAffairs.jpg

AllSides is continually evaluating media bias as our media landscape grows. We frequently add news sources to the site to help you get the most reliable data on media bias. In order to ensure our media bias ratings are accurate and up to date, we need the AllSides community to participate...

Tags:

Media Bias

announcement

bias ratings

update

Trump's Comments on Russian Election Meddling Spark Bipartisan Criticism

News

/ July 19th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

trump-putin-helsinki07162018.jpg

After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, President Trump sparked bipartisan outrage when he publicly accepted Putin's denials of election meddling. He later backtracked, stating that he meant to say the opposite . While his remarks received criticism across the...

Tags:

Russia

Donald Trump

Vladimir Putin

Story of the Week

News

President Trump Nominates Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court

News

/ July 12th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-07-12 at 3.44.06 PM.png

President Trump announced the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, who, if confirmed, will fill the vacancy left by Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement. Many on the Right have praised the selection as a victory for constitutional conservatism, while some on the Left...

Tags:

Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh

Donald Trump

LGBT Rights

Abortion

Story of the Week

News

Paradox: Our Weakness Is Our Strength

News

/ July 6th, 2018 / By Joan Blades

unnamed (1).jpg

I began describing Living Room Conversations as a domestic peace initiative just over a year ago. Individuals and communities that were at odds or disconnected were intentionally meeting to talk, build understanding and even friendships. It has become clear that the result is simple local...

Tags:

Political Polarization

bridging divides

Living Room Conversations

News

Shooting at Annapolis Newspaper Reignites Debate Around Guns, Mental Health

News

/ July 5th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-07-05 at 6.37.35 PM.png

A gunman killed five people last Thursday at the offices of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, reigniting the debate around gun control and mental health. Some argue that tighter restrictions on firearms are necessary to prevent further shootings, particularly since...

Tags:

Gun Control and Gun Rights

Capital Gazette

Mental Health

Story of the Week

News

INFOGRAPHIC: How Political Bias Fools Us

Bias

/ June 29th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

courtney-hedger-336875-unsplash.jpg

Republicans are wrong about Democrats. Democrats are wrong about Republicans. It turns out that Americans are not so good at determining how many people with certain characteristics belong to either of the major political parties. A study by scholars Douglas Ahler and Gaurav Sood that was...

Tags:

Bias

bias against conservatives

political bias

Democrat Party

Republican Party

Democrats

Republicans

Fact Check: What Does the SCOTUS Travel Ban Ruling Actually Mean?

News

/ June 29th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

RTS1TVF7.jpg

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a 5-4 decision upholding President Trump's travel ban. What exactly does that mean? Partisan news organizations and politicians had vastly different reactions to the news, leading to a varied understanding of the ruling's ramifications. Claim: The...

Tags:

Immigration

Supreme Court

Donald Trump

Travel ban

Fact Check

News

Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire From Supreme Court

News

/ June 28th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

062718seib1_640x360.jpg

Justice Anthony Kennedy is set to retire from the Supreme Court after three decades of serving as a pivotal swing vote. Many on the Right celebrated the announcement, as President Trump will now have the opportunity to solidify the court's conservative bloc. Several outlets on the Left...

Tags:

Supreme Court

Anthony Kennedy

Story of the Week

News

Fact Check: What is Happening at the Border?

News

/ June 22nd, 2018 / By Billy Binion

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 3.02.19 PM.png

In the midst of recent reports that over 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border, it’s been nothing short of chaos in the news cycle this week. Some say the outrage is unwarranted and has been overblown by the media, while others claim that the country...

Tags:

Immigration

Illegal Immigration

Donald Trump

Barack Obama

News

Family Separation at Border Sparks Outrage

News

/ June 21st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Trump-Border-Patrol-Family-Separation.jpg

The Trump administration's new "zero tolerance" policy at the border sparked outrage this past week, particularly in light of reports that children were being separated from their parents. Some on the Right point to the fact that former President Obama carried out the same tactic,...

Tags:

Immigration

Illegal Immigration

Donald Trump

Barack Obama

Story of the Week

News

Fact Check: Does Trump or Obama Deserve Credit for the Economy?

News

/ June 15th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

0af17ee45a4ef57d37d002da68a9d1929ff66d41.jpg

The Story: With the release of the May jobs report , most publications across the aisle found a rare area of agreement. The numbers, they said, were inherently positive. But opinions decidedly diverge over how long the party will last, and which leader (Trump or Obama?) deserves the...

Tags:

Economy and Jobs

Donald Trump

Barack Obama

News

President Trump and Kim Jong Un Meet for Historic Summit

News

/ June 14th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

trump_kim_summit_47406_c0-0-5008-2919_s885x516.jpg

President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met for a summit in Singapore on Tuesday , closing with a signed agreement that said Pyongyang would establish "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." Some on the Right have celebrated the meeting as a success and...

Tags:

North Korea

Kim Jong Un

Donald Trump

denuclearization

Story of the Week

News

Fact Check: Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling, Philadelphia Eagles Debacle

News

/ June 8th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

download (4).jpeg

It’s been a confusing news cycle this week, with conflicting slants leaving people more confused than informed. Let’s take a look at two big stories — the Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling and the Philadelphia Eagles White House visit — which were riddled with inconsistencies...

Tags:

Fact Check

Free Speech

Religion and Faith

LGBT Rights

LGBT

religious freedom

sports

NFL

Philadelphia Eagles

News

Supreme Court Cake Ruling Heralded by Both Sides

News

/ June 7th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

2602b6524509d2af9519b6a3fd63b273457e3760.png

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Christian baker Jack Phillips who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Some on the Left have said that the verdict is a victory, as the Court's majority opinion does not sanction a First Amendment right to discriminate, but instead...

Tags:

Supreme Court

Free Speech

Religion and Faith

Freedom of Religion

LGBT Rights

LGBT

Story of the Week

News

Fact Check: Were 1,500 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Lost at the Border?

News

/ June 1st, 2018 / By Billy Binion

Screen Shot 2018-06-01 at 3.34.06 PM.png

Claim: Approximately 1,500 immigrant children were lost by U.S. border security after being separated from their parents. Verdict: False Background : A story ran in the New York Times on April 26 claiming the Department of Health and Human Services "lost track" of 1,475 migrant children...

Tags:

Immigration

Fact Check

News

Roseanne Barr Controversy Reignites Free Speech Debate

News

/ May 31st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

_101808401_afp1.jpg

ABC canceled the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its star, Roseanne Barr, sent a racially charged tweet directed at former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. Ms. Barr wrote that if the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj." Ms. Jarrett was born in Iran and is Black. After ABC...

Tags:

Arts and Entertainment

Free Speech

Roseanne Barr

Story of the Week

News

President Trump Cancels Summit With North Korea

News

/ May 24th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

merlin_138574752_e7f4a5ef-1552-4a51-8de8-3286cc3fda8a-jumbo.jpg

President Trump on Thursday canceled the much anticipated summit with North Korea in a letter to Kim Jong Un that cited “tremendous anger and open hostility” from the country. Supporters of the decision argue that the president made the right call in the wake of North Korea's recent...

Tags:

North Korea

Donald Trump

Kim Jong Un

Story of the Week

News

Israelis and Palestinians Clash at Gaza Border

News

/ May 17th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

636619651922594816-AFP-AFP-14X2SV-99881125.JPG

On Monday morning, Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces engaged in a deadly clash at the Gaza border as the US embassy opened in Jerusalem. Supporters of Israel assert that the country had the obligation to defend its border from the violent protests, carried out by the terrorist...

Tags:

Israel

Palestine

Gaza

Story of the Week

News

Step Out of Your Filter Bubble and Consume a Balanced News Diet

News

/ May 10th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

Webp.net-resizeimage (80).png

Check out this ad that ran in the New York Times last week honoring World Press Freedom Day. "Don't just read the New York Times," they say, encouraging readers to step out of their filter bubbles and consume a litany of other sources. This is something we support wholeheartedly at...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

President Trump Withdraws from Iran Deal

News

/ May 10th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

gettyimages-914976956.jpg

President Trump officially withdrew from the Iran Deal, an Obama-era international accord that lowered sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting the country's ability to make nuclear weapons. Supporters of the decision argue that the agreement did not effectively reduce nuclear weapons...

Tags:

Foreign Policy

Iran Deal

Middle East

Story of the Week

News

Outrage Over White House Correspondents' Dinner

News

/ May 3rd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-05-03 at 6.42.16 PM.png

Comedian Michelle Wolf delivered the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner monologue, and reactions were mixed on if the entertainer took things too far. Detractors took issue with her crude jokes which harshly criticized Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, while supporters argued...

Tags:

Arts and Entertainment

White House

White House Correspondents Dinner

Michelle Wolf

Story of the Week

News

North Korea Pledges to Suspend Nuclear Testing

News

/ April 26th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-04-26 at 4.52.38 PM.png

North Korea announced that it would cease nuclear testing indefinitely as Kim Jong-Un travels to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Experts are divided on whether or not this actually signals openness to disarming. The news coincided with French President Emmanuel Macron's U.S...

Tags:

North Korea

denuclearization

Kim Jong Un

Emmanuel Macron

Mike Pompeo

Story of the Week

News

Hearing Every Voice

News

/ April 23rd, 2018 / By Tom McSteen

unnamed.jpg

How do you feel when your voice is heard? How do you feel when it is not? We all want our voice to be heard. We all want to feel self-expressed. We all want to leave a gathering where we had something to say, having said what we wanted to say. If that does not happen, feelings of...

Tags:

Media React to James Comey's Newly Released Book

News

/ April 19th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

im-7344.jpeg

James Comey released his new book, A Higher Loyalty , about his time in the Trump White House, evoking strong reactions from the media. Ironically, Comey was condemned across the aisle, with left-leaning and right-leaning publications asserting that some of his criticisms directed towards...

Tags:

Politics

James Comey

Donald Trump

FBI

Story of the Week

News

Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Re-Election

News

/ April 12th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

12ryan-alpha-facebookJumbo.jpg

Paul Ryan announced on Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in November. The move sparked debate around Republican odds in the 2018 midterms as well as speculation concerning Ryan's tenuous relationship with President Trump. What's the best way to combat media bias? Does unbiased...

Tags:

US House

Elections

Paul Ryan

Story of the Week

News

Does Unbiased News Really Exist?

News

/ April 10th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

download (1).png

Sinclair Broadcast Group caused an uproar after they required local news anchors across the country to recite an identical script condemning “one-sided” stories in the national media. But does unbiased news actually exist? One of our core beliefs at AllSides is that it does not. Everyone...

Tags:

fake news

unbiased news

Media Bias

News

Sinclair Broadcasting Engulfed in 'Fake News' Promo Controversy

News

/ April 5th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

sinclairbroadcast_getty.jpg

Sinclair Broadcasting required its local news anchors to read from an identical script warning against false news and criticizing the mainstream media for "irresponsible, one-sided news stories." Many on the Left denounced the network for displaying conservative bias, while some on the...

Tags:

fake news

Media Bias

Sinclair Broadcasting

Story of the Week

News

Students Carry Out March for Our Lives Protests

News

/ March 30th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Witt-March-for-Our-Lives.jpg

Hundreds of thousands of people attended the student-led "March for Our Lives" rallies across the country in support of gun control after a shooting in Parkland, Fla. left 17 people dead. Many supporters praised the youth organizers' efforts towards gun reform, while detractors argued...

Tags:

Guns

Gun Control

Gun Rights

Story of the Week

News

Yes, CNN's Media Bias Has Shifted Left

News

/ March 27th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

blog-cnn.jpg

Data driven and bi-partisan analysis reveals CNN's news media bias has shifted Left in the last three years In the past, AllSides rated CNN Web News (which does not include Opinion/Editorial pieces or cable TV broadcasts) as Center media bias — yet, it was barely Center, and fell close to...

Tags:

Media Bias

Media

liberal media

CNN

Media Watch - Media Bias

Media Watch/Media Bias

Facebook Under Fire for Data Harvesting

News

/ March 22nd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

1521640776584.jpg

Facebook is under widespread criticism after it was revealed that a political analysis firm was able to harvest personal information from millions of users without their permission. The company, Cambridge Analytica, was employed by President Trump's campaign, and the data was utilized to...

Tags:

Technology

Facebook

Media Bias

Story of the Week

News

Rex Tillerson Fired as Secretary of State

News

/ March 15th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

636565312866197173-EPA-KENYA-USA-DIPLOMACY-98286991.JPG

President Trump ousted Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, announcing that CIA director Mike Pompeo would be his replacement. Some speculate that he was fired over disagreements related to Russia, while others posit that Trump wanted someone who would take harsher stances on Iran and...

Tags:

State Department

White House

Rex Tillerson

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Trump to Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

News

/ March 8th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

merlin_135204480_9a539dc2-02dd-4808-99d7-4d20d212dd63-master768.jpg

President Trump officially announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, exempting Mexico and Canada. Critics argue this could spark a trade war, while some in favor say that this is part of his 'America First' agenda. The plan also has unlikely supporters in large unions and some...

Tags:

Trade

tariffs

Donald Trump

Story of the Week

News

Contrarian or Jerk?

News

/ March 5th, 2018 / By Debilyn Molineaux

Webp.net-resizeimage (78).png

We all know them -- and we may be them. Who? People who seem to tear down every idea, project or dream we’ve been carefully crafting and protecting. Us dreamers are gonna dream -- and to make dreams a reality, we actually need the contrarians in our lives to help us. The challenge we have...

Tags:

Polarization

bridging divides

Living Room Conversations

News

Democratic Memo Released

News

/ March 1st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

adam-schiff.jpg

Earlier this week, the House Intelligence Committee released a Democratic response to the Republican memo which had stipulated misconduct from the FBI and Justice Department. The Democrats' highly redacted response suggested that the panel’s Republican majority had cherry-picked and...

Tags:

News

Democratic Party

Schiff memo

House Intelligence Committee

Story of the Week

Living Room Conversations at the Unrig the System Summit

News

/ February 26th, 2018 / By Beth G. Raps

Webp.net-resizeimage (78).png

Living Room Conversations was recently represented at a major transpartisan conference— Unrig the System Summit —by our Chief Technical Officer Martin Wallace (who’s also one of the brains behind our beautiful new website ). In this post, Martin shares some of his experiences at Unrig,...

Tags:

Transpartisan

Living Room Conversations

News

Parkland Teens Launch Gun Debate

News

/ February 22nd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-02-22 at 5.04.30 PM.png

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, students from Florida are pushing for increased gun control measures, such as a ban on assault weapons. After leading several protests across the state, a group from Stoneman Douglas High School appeared in a town hall led by CNN on Wednesday...

Tags:

Gun Legislation

Florida School Shooting

Story of the Week

News

Florida School Shooting

News

/ February 15th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

918644194.nbcnews-ux-1080-600.jpg

A school shooting in Parkland, FL on Wednesday left 17 students and educators dead. In the wake of the tragedy, many lawmakers on the Left called for increased gun control, while several on the Right, including President Trump, advocated for better awareness surrounding mental health...

Tags:

Gun Legislation

Education

Mental Health

Story of the Week

News

Middle of the Room Conversations

News

/ February 12th, 2018 / By Pedro Silva

Webp.net-resizeimage (11).jpg

As I sat in the front row of Second Baptist Church of Boulder, Colorado waiting to be called up to join my fellow panelists, I found myself wondering what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would think of this moment. On this Saturday morning, some fifty years after he was assassinated,...

Tags:

Living Room Conversations

civil discourse

Faith and Religion

News

Russia Infiltrates 2016 Voter Rolls

News

/ February 8th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

1518060783076.jpg

Russia infiltrated voter rolls during the 2016 election, according to a U.S. cybersecurity official. Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said that 21 states were targeted but that "an exceptionally small number of them were actually...

Tags:

Russia

Election: Presidential

Story of the Week

News

Trump's First State of the Union

News

/ February 1st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

medium_2018-01-31-ca2c8d2207.jpg

President Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, and reactions varied widely across the aisle. Many on the Right celebrated the speech as presidential, while many on the Left criticized Trump for what they felt was divisive rhetoric, particularly surrounding the...

Tags:

Politics

State of the Union

SOTU

Story of the Week

News

Politico Media Bias Update

News

/ February 1st, 2018 / By lpinto

POLITICO.jpg

Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We also completed an analysis of CNN where we kept the media bias rating for CNN Web News as Center, but created a new page for CNN Opinion (Far Left). After...

Tags:

Media Bias

Politico

News

Government Shutdown Ends

News

/ January 25th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-01-25 at 5.54.56 PM.png

The government shutdown came to an end after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that DACA legislation would advance to the Senate floor no later than Feb. 8th . Many Right-leaning outlets celebrated the news as a victory, while many...

Tags:

US Congress

Immigration

Politics

Story of the Week

News

Daily Beast Media Bias Update

News

/ January 25th, 2018 / By lpinto

dailybeastlogo_1_n3h869.jpg

Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We also completed an analysis of CNN where we updated the media bias rating for CNN Web News (Center) and created a new page for CNN Opinion (Far Left). And we did...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

Daily Beast

A Parish Administrator's Perspective on Civil Disagreement

News

/ January 25th, 2018 / By Bruce Friesen

Webp.net-resizeimage (7).jpg

I used to think I knew what I stood for, what my make up as a person was. As the years go by, I’ve realized I’m not what I used to be. I have never wanted to be perceived with labels, but I knew where I fell. A conservative on the right, not the far right but let me make it clear that my...

Tags:

Living Room Conversations

Faith

News

Government Shutdown Looms

News

/ January 19th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

53e3f816-7c7c-41a4-8d59-4deb18457da3.jpg

The government is potentially hours away from a shutdown if Democrats and Republicans are unable to compromise. The House passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open and continue funding the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which expires today. But...

Tags:

Polarization

Politics

Political Polarization

News

Story of the Week

Living Room Conversations for Inclusive Campus Environments

News

/ January 19th, 2018 / By Jessica Shryack

MNlrc.jpg

Minnesota has some of the worst gaps in educational attainment in the country. That’s not really news anymore. What may be news to people living outside the state, however, is the degree of ethnic and class segregation in our apparently progressive “best places to live” Twin Cities. Our...

Tags:

Education

Living Room Conversations

civil discourse

News

Bridging the Divide on Free Speech

News

/ January 18th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

2018-01-18-free-speech-week.jpg

Should all speech be protected? Is some speech too hateful for the public sphere? When it comes to free speech on campus, the left and right diverge on how to move forward. But is there common ground? This article is the first in a series representing a collaboration between The Saturday...

Tags:

Free Speech

First Amendment

Education

News

December 2017 Jobs Report

News

/ January 11th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2018-01-11 at 6.36.10 PM.png

The Labor Department released the December 2017 jobs report, and media outlets across the aisle have had varying reactions to the raw data. The U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs, falling short of what economists expected for the month, but unemployment remained at 4.1%, which is a 17-year...

Tags:

Economy & Jobs

Jobs Report

Story of the Week

News

Fox News Media Bias Update

News

/ January 11th, 2018 / By lpinto

og-fox-news.png

Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We took the same approach for our analysis of CNN , splitting into a media bias rating for CNN Web News (Center) and CNN Opinion (Far Left). The Fox News media bias...

Tags:

Media Bias

Fox News

News

Daily Caller Media Bias Update

News

/ January 10th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

Webp.net-resizeimage (5).jpg

Note: Based on user feedback, we changed The Daily Caller media bias to Far Right. We recently received a comment that expressed concern over the use of one of our right-wing news sources. The knee-jerk reaction might be to pin the blame on Breitbart, which we previously detailed our...

Tags:

Media Bias

Daily Caller

News

New Year's Resolution: Talk with the Other Side

News

/ January 4th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

new_years_resolutions_list.jpg

Happy New Year's from AllSides! Every year, millions of people make New Year's resolutions, all of which are set with the very best of intentions. Many resolutions are focused on the self. There are people looking to lose weight or quit smoking, travel more or work less. Some people last...

Tags:

Happy New Year

Living Room Conversations

Listen First

Mismatch

Story of the Week

News

Wrapping Up 2017

News

/ December 28th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Colorful_2017_sticker_sign.jpg

This is a week of year end reviews, be it Trump's 1st Year in Review or The Media and Donald Trump in 2017 , and there will be many more in the next few days. We at AllSides also look back at this year as a turning point for our cause. Our mission is to free people from filter bubbles so...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

AllSides

AllSides for Schools

Donald Trump

Historic Tax Bill Approved by House and Senate

News

/ December 21st, 2017 / By lpinto

6757863873_21df835fb1_b.jpg

In the first major legislative win for the Trump presidency, the House and Senate passed massive tax reform this week. This is the biggest tax overhaul since the Reagan administration but has been met with mixed reactions. Supporters say the bill will give most people tax cuts though the...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Taxes

GOP

US House

US Senate

CNN Media Bias Update

News

/ December 21st, 2017 / By lpinto

CNN-Logo.jpg

CNN is, without a doubt, our most highly contested source. Based on past data, the current CNN media bias rating is Center, but many users argue that it should be labeled Lean Left, if not altogether Left. (Reminder: We only rate the media bias of sources as they appear on the Web and use...

Tags:

News

Media Bias

CNN

Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Seat

News

/ December 14th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-12-14 at 5.17.01 PM.png

In a narrow upset, Democrat Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate seat this week in a special election. Democrats were thrilled with the victory, hoping this is the first of many on the way to flipping the Senate and House in the 2018 Midterms. While Republicans, including President Trump,...

Tags:

Doug Jones

Election

Story of the Week

News

Alabama

NPR Media Bias Update

News

/ December 13th, 2017 / By lpinto

Webp.net-resizeimage (2).jpg

Thanks to your feedback, we recently updated several media bias ratings , and first on the list is NPR (reminder: we only rate the articles found on the web, not the broadcast radio programs). Up until now, the AllSides NPR media bias rating has been Center, but data collected in recent...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

Breaking Through Filter Bubbles with Technology and Civil Discourse: TED Talk

Recommended Reading

/ December 12th, 2017 / By lpinto

TED1.png

Joan Blades and John Gable talk about filter bubbles and bridging divides through civil discourse at TEDWomen 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Photo credit: Ryan Lash / TED Technology created stronger filter bubbles, civil discourse and technology can free us This is the original script from the TED talk on breaking out of filter bubbles and bridging divides through civil discourse, given by John Gable and Joan Blades on...

Tags:

TED talk

AllSides

AllSides for Schools

Schools

John Gable

Joan Blades

Living Room Conversations

Resignations, Elections and Time Magazine: Sexual Harassment in the News

News

/ December 7th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

person-of-year-2017-time-magazine-cover1.jpg

Time Person of the Year Cover - Silence Breakers

It's been another full week of sexual harassment being in the news. Today Sen. Al Franken (D) announced that he was resigning and yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D) retired from his seat early. Neither have official replacements yet. The upcoming Senate election in Alabama between Trump-...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

sexual harassment

sexual misconduct

Impact of the Proposed Tax Bill

News

/ November 30th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

merlin_130722194_fe27c22f-fe4f-490f-b6e6-d13cf2b46b5d-superJumbo.jpg

The vote on the GOP's proposed tax bill could come as early as today. There is a whole lot of information out there about what the bill supposedly will and won't do for the American people. Take a look at our snippets to get a clearer picture of how the Right, Left and Center portray it...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

GOP

Senate

Taxes

Tax Cuts

Give Media Literacy on this #GivingTuesday

Site

/ November 27th, 2017 / By lpinto

image_give.jpg

Donate Now! Revitalize democracy! Support media literacy and civil discourse. Democracy requires its citizens to be informed, and to have free open conversations across divides. AllSides for Schools helps students navigate the increasingly biased, misleading and confusing media landscape...

Tags:

AllSides for Schools

Schools

Giving Tuesday

How do I have a non-partisan Thanksgiving?

Bias

/ November 22nd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

8493096205_19fceec075_b.jpg

Happy Thanksgiving from the whole team at AllSides! As much as we all enjoy the delicious food, w e know that Thanksgiving is a time when you might see relatives that you haven't seen in a while. As everyone is sitting around the table, the conversation might turn to politics, and often,...

Tags:

AllSides

Thanksgiving

Holiday

bipartisan

Polarization

Living Room Conversations

Story of the Week

News

Tax Bill Passes House

News

/ November 16th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

104825895-GettyImages-870943668-kevin-brady.1910x1000.jpg

Today, the GOP proposed tax bill passed the House of Representatives with a vote of 227-205. House Speaker Paul Ryan called it the "single biggest thing we can do to grow the economy" and touted the fact that this is the first time since 1986 the tax bill has been rewritten, showing the...

Tags:

Taxes

House of Representatives

GOP

Story of the Week

News

Popping Filter Bubbles in Higher Education

News

/ November 10th, 2017 / By John Kesler

college-lecture-hall.jpg

Editor's Note: At AllSides, we have several educational programs that expose students to different ideas because we view diversity of thought as an integral part of the educational experience. This blog post explores the pros and cons of the current higher ed system and how, overall,...

Tags:

Education

Schools

News

Election Night Success for Dems in Virginia, NJ

News

/ November 9th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-11-09 at 5.00.12 PM.png

Democrats won key races Tuesday night in New Jersey and Virginia, including the Governor in both states. Since then, the party has quickly turned their sights towards the 2018 Midterms. There is hope among some on the Left that this is the first "wave" of the "resistance" against...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Democratic Party

Virginia

New Jersey

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

News

/ November 2nd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

03dc-TAX-1-master768-v2.jpg

House Republicans unveiled their tax plan today, seeking the biggest change to the tax code in more than 30 years. Their aim is to simplify the tax code for individuals while also reducing the corporate tax rate. Many on the Left are hesitant about how the cuts will affect the middle...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

GOP

House of Representatives

US House Republicans

Republican Party

Taxes

GOP Budget Passes House

News

/ October 26th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

opinion-trump-just-waffled-on-a-key-tax-reform-provision-this-is-shaping-up-as-a-real-mess.jpg

The GOP's $4 trillion budget narrowly passed the House today in a vote of 216-212, after last minute negotiations with high-taxed states and those concerned with deficits. Next, the bill goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, putting the party one step closer to achieving tax reform...

Tags:

Budget - Debt

Budget

GOP

House of Representatives

Tax reform

Story of the Week

News

Updating Our Media Bias Ratings: Editorial Review

News

/ October 23rd, 2017 / By lpinto

editorial review collage.jpg

Media bias ratings at AllSides are not set in stone. We like to think of them as alive, constantly growing and changing -- often driven by you, the reader. They are updated on a regular basis, using blind bias quizzes , community ratings , independent research, and editorial reviews...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

U.S. Stays in Iran Nuclear Deal... For Now

News

/ October 19th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

150328-tomasky-iran-nukes-deal-tease_ler0wf.jpg

In the past, the president had suggested that the U.S. might pull out of the Iran nuclear deal previously established under his predecessor. This week, President Trump announced that he would be decertifying the deal, but not pulling out of it. This action sends the deal back to Congress...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Iran

Iran nuclear deal

Donald Trump

Middle East

Media for the Common Good: Part Two

News

/ October 16th, 2017 / By Peggy Holman

Screen Shot 2017-10-16 at 2.46.43 PM.png

Editor’s Note: In Part One of this series, we discussed the positive impact that journalism can have when it tells stories that bring people together. While AllSides works to improve journalism by revealing media bias and providing balanced news (some would call it unbiased news, but...

Tags:

News

Journalism

Trump at Odds With Puerto Rico

News

/ October 12th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-10-12 at 7.35.24 PM.png

This morning, President Trump tweeted that the United States "cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!" Many news outlets took this to mean that he will soon pull out of the U.S. territory...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Puerto Rico

Disaster

FEMA

Donald Trump

Media for the Common Good: Part One

News

/ October 7th, 2017 / By Peggy Holman

mediacommongood.jpg

Editor’s Note: At AllSides, we generally focus on media bias and how to break through it by providing more balanced news using multiple perspectives to get a better, broader understanding of the topic. But there is much more to journalism than that. This guest article provides a glimpse...

Tags:

News

Mass Shooting in Las Vegas

News

/ October 5th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

vegas strip triage.jpg

The largest mass shooting in modern American history took place on Sunday night in Las Vegas. The gunman shot from his Mandalay Bay hotel room into a crowd of 20,000 at an outdoor concert, killing 59 and injuring over 500 people . It is still unclear at this time what his motives were,...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Las Vegas shooting

Gun Control

Gun Legislation

Aid Being Sent to Puerto Rico

News

/ September 28th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 12.39.28 PM.png

After Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico last week, President Trump has suspended the Jones Act, making it easier to deliver aid. The badly battered island has been without potable water for a significant percentage of the population and without electricity for the...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico

The Media Bias Epidemic: What Is the Cause?

News

/ September 24th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

20101117_125217_CU Journalism School13.jpg

It seems all media have some sort unofficial political affiliation these days: conservative, liberal, libertarian, Republican, Democrat, far right-wing, far left-wing — the list goes on. The institution associated with nonpartisanship is anything but. So what is the root? We recently...

Tags:

Media Bias

Education

News

Last Chance for Repeal and Replace

News

/ September 21st, 2017 / By JohnSGable

grahamcassidy.nbcnews-ux-1080-600.jpg

The Graham-Cassidy bill is seen as the last chance Republicans have of repealing and replacing Obamacare. After September ends, the Senate will need 60 votes to pass any healthcare legislation (currently they only need 50, plus a tiebreaker by VP Pence). There are 4 hold-out votes - Sen...

Tags:

Story of the Week

ACA

Obamacare

Obamacare repeal

Senate

Republican Party

News

The Subtleties of Media Bias

News

/ September 21st, 2017 / By Grace Debusschere

cnn-fox-news-msnbc.jpg

As we discussed in a recent blog post , everything we read is biased, as all individuals are consciously and subconsciously influenced by their own unique life experiences. Therefore, readers shouldn’t solely seek out unbiased sources, but rather deliberately consult multiple angles. But...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

Unbiased News or a Balanced News Diet - What Do We Really Want?

News

/ September 15th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

cronkite-395.jpg

Unbiased news: is it even possible? One of the premises of AllSides is that it is not - everyone is biased. All news sources and their writers are biased by what they know, what they don’t know, and what their own unique life experiences have been. Sure, many journalists have been trained...

Tags:

Media Bias

News

Medicare-for-All Bill Introduced

News

/ September 14th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-09-14 at 2.12.21 PM.png

On Wednesday , Independent Senator Bernie Sanders revealed a "Medicare-for-all", also known as single payer, healthcare plan backed by sixteen of his Democratic colleagues. With only a third of Democratic senators behind the plan, speculation being that those up for reelection in 2018 are...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Healthcare

Medicare

Single-payer system

Bernie Sanders

An Analysis of Media Bias: September 11 and Onward

News

/ September 11th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

september-11th-photo.jpg

In times of utter devastation, humans rally together. At one point, this also applied to news organizations, with tragedy providing impetus for fair and humane reporting. In 2017, that sounds like a near impossible task for the media. However, on September 11, 2001, exactly 16 years ago,...

Tags:

Polarization

Media Bias

News

AllSides Community Weighs in on Breitbart

News

/ September 8th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

Webp.net-resizeimage (46).png

In late-July, I penned a piece about Breitbart, the highly conservative news outlet whose far-right slant often riles controversy. The post, “ Breitbart: Right-wing Publication or Fake News? ”, gave people the chance to weigh in on how AllSides should employ their perspective when...

Tags:

Media Bias

Breitbart

Polarization

News

Growing Up in School for Democracy: Fighting Media Bias from Day One

News

/ September 1st, 2017 / By John Kesler

download.jpg

Maturity is one important lens for assessing progress in developing a healthier American democracy both in terms of competent citizenship and effective leadership. This post will comment on the importance of educating students through high school with this perspective in mind, referencing...

Tags:

News

Media Bias

Education

Filter Bubbles

Schools

Antifa: Necessary, Counterproductive or Dangerous?

News

/ August 31st, 2017 / By JohnSGable

antifa2.jpg

At this time of crisis in Texas and Louisiana, we at AllSides and the rest of America have all victims of Hurricane Harvey in our hearts. Other news demonstrates how America may not be that united... Antifa is a self described anti fascist group from the far-left that fights more against...

Tags:

Antifa

anti-fascists

Free Speech

Story of the Week

News

Trump to Send More Troops to Afghanistan

News

/ August 24th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

545139876.jpg

President Trump announced that America will be sending approximately 4000 more troops to Afghanistan. This comes after his harsh criticisms of both President Bush and Obama for their decisions in Iraq. The concern is that pulling all of America's troops out of Afghanistan would lead to a...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Donald Trump

Protests in Charlottesville and the President's Reaction

News

/ August 17th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

17confederate-monuments-charlottesville2-master1050.jpg

By now you have probably read about the protests in Charlottesville last Saturday that ended with 34 people wounded and 1 dead. There was a protest and counter protest focused on the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, the Confederacy's top general. The original protest was led by a...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Charlottesville

Trump and North Korea

News

/ August 10th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

170415-world-northkorea-soldiers-parade-0704_219f7d358983b3933d96d393e6cb5bc2.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

This week, tensions have increased between North Korea and America. North Korea has been testing missiles over the last several months at an increased frequency and President Trump made a statement Tuesday that any action would be met with "fire and fury" from the U.S.. He has since...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

North Korea

Media Bias: Is it a Crime?

News

/ August 9th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

cnn.jpg

According to some, America is facing a new terrorist threat: the media. “CNN IS ISIS,” the sign reads. It’s a stunning accusation — particularly when considering that the media are expected to be a stronghold in American society, charged with holding government accountable. Is the nation’...

Tags:

Media Bias

Polarization

Staff Changes in the White House

News

/ August 3rd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

02-john-kelly.w710.h473.2x.jpg

There have been many changes to the White House staff over the past few weeks. First White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stepped down when Anthony Scaramucci was selected as the new White House Communications Director. Then Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was replaced by retired Marine...

Tags:

News

Anthony Scaramucci

John Kelly

White House

Reince Priebus

Using Mismatch in the Classroom: A Teacher's Perspective

Recommended Reading

/ July 28th, 2017 / By lpinto

Zoom4x4.jpg

This Fall, AllSides for Schools will launch our newest service, Mismatch. Mismatch will be used to connect students who are different than they are across the country. They will have structured, civil conversations based around our Relationships First lesson plan. At the end of last...

Tags:

School

Education

Mismatch

Schools

Breitbart: Right-wing Publication or Fake News?

News

/ July 28th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

Breitbart-logo.jpg

Fake news. Propaganda. Alt-right. Breitbart. Which of these doesn’t belong? Some would say they’re all fair game. In many circles, the conservative news outlet epitomizes malicious misinformation. Others revere it as a crusader for truth, willing to throw political correctness away with...

Tags:

Media Bias

Transgender Military Ban

News

/ July 27th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Remnick-Trump-Ban-Transgender-Military.jpg

In a series of tweets, President Trump announced that transgender people will be banned from joining the nation's military. Transgender members of the military have spoken out calling it a "shot in the face". Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Transgender

transgender ban

Still Too Few Votes to Repeal ACA

News

/ July 20th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-07-20 at 6.02.07 PM.png

Republicans in the Senate hoped to vote on the new healthcare bill or at least to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but the vote has again been pushed back by Senate Majority Leader McConnell. Revisions have been made over the past several weeks to the Senate bill but still a few...

Tags:

News

Healthcare

Senate

GOP

ACA

Lawsuit against Trump raises question: Is the president's Twitter account a public platform?

News

/ July 19th, 2017 / By Grace Debusschere

TRUMP AGAIN.jpg

Last month, we wrote about Twitter's new tools that help users censor their feeds, thus cementing partisan filter bubbles . This month, a lawsuit against President Trump takes that debate to the next level. The Knight First Amendment Institute , a free speech advocacy organization, is...

Tags:

Donald Trump

Lawsuit

Twitter

Censorship

First Amendment

Free Speech

Don Jr. Met With Russian Lawyer

News

/ July 13th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

1060x600-a9552b8325d2f1571e7358d7d5605cbc.jpg

News broke this week that Donald Trump Jr. had contact with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election allegedly to receive opposition research on the Clinton campaign. Don Jr. release d his email string to show the full extent of the communication and maintains that the "...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump Jr.

Russia

Emails

Trump's War with the Media

News

/ July 6th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-07-06 at 5.26.48 PM.png

President Trump's war with the mainstream media reached new heights this week when he tweeted a controversial video of himself attacking the CNN logo. While his actions received condemnation from several news outlets, coverage of the tweet varied drastically across the partisan divide...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Media Bias

Donald Trump

fake news

Polarization

Trademark Office's Hypocrisy Turns into a Victory for Free Speech

News

/ June 30th, 2017 / By Grace Debusschere

The Slants.jpg

The Slants, an Asian-American dance-rock group, were initially denied a trademark by the US government. The grounds for the decision? The band name was deemed racially offensive. The term ‘slant’ is sometimes used as a racial epithet to disparage people of Asian descent. But even so,...

Tags:

The Slants

Free Speech

First Amendment

Supreme Court

Senate Healthcare Vote Delayed

News

/ June 29th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

ap_17173568787210.jpg

After releasing the Senate healthcare bill last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote until after summer recess. Several Republican Senators have decided against supporting the bill and with the Democrats unified in opposition, the future of the bill is uncertain...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Senate

Healthcare

Better Care Reconciliation Act

The Senate's New Healthcare Bill: What Do You Think?

Your Sides

/ June 27th, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

mitch mcconnell.jpg

Last Thursday, Senate Republicans revealed the much-anticipated Better Care Reconciliation Act, the new healthcare bill designed to replace Obamacare. Since its release, there have been a multitude of articles either praising or condemning the bill, with a minority actually going into...

Tags:

Senate Reveals Healthcare Bill

News

/ June 22nd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

uploads%2Fgetty%2F2017%2F6%2F22%2F1ccf9e5d-1fe6-46f2-ba80-ce3998874ceb-getty-683871042.jpg

After much secrecy, Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans revealed their updated version of the AHCA today. As McConnell pushes for a vote before the summer recess, a few Republican Senators say the bill does not go far enough to dismantle Obamacare and therefore will not vote to...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Healthcare

ACA

AHCA

Mitch McConnell

A Lesson in Civil Discourse from Megan Phelps-Roper

Recommended Reading

/ June 21st, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

meghan phelps roper.jpg

I recently stumbled upon Megan Phelps-Roper’s TED Talk about her contentious exit from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). Never one to turn down a good TED Talk, I opened it up and let it play in the background while I continued to sift through my emails. However, it didn’t take long for...

Tags:

civil discourse

Twitter

Schools

Shooting of Louisiana Congressman

News

/ June 15th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Steve-Scalise-v2.jpg

Yesterday morning in Alexandria, VA, a gunman opened fire on the GOP's Congressional Baseball Game practice, critically wounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). In the wake of the shooting, leaders from both sides of the aisle have come together expressing calls for unity, and...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Steve Scalise

Shooting

Fight the Rage and Ignorance - That's What AllSides Is All About - Here Is What You Can Do

News

/ June 15th, 2017 / By Billy Binion

Screen Shot 2017-06-15 at 10.28.32 AM.png

If you’ve tuned into the news within the last 24 hours, even if just for a cursory glance, you’ve most likely heard about the tragic shooting in Alexandria, VA – where a gunman opened fire on the GOP’s Congressional Baseball Game practice . But the most striking part of the recent press...

Tags:

bipartisan

Polarization

Comey Testifies

News

/ June 8th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-06-08 at 1.45.37 PM.png

In an open session in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee today, James Comey the former FBI Director, testified for close to 3 hours. After a short break, he then spoke for another hour in a closed session, most likely containing classified information. It remains to be seen what...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

James Comey

Russia

Donald Trump

Paris Agreement Survey Results

Your Sides

/ June 8th, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

Screen Shot 2017-06-08 at 1.14.45 PM.png

Last week, we asked the AllSides community to tell us what they thought about the Paris Climate Accord and President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the deal through a survey on social media. (There was also a heated debate on Facebook .) Here are the results of the survey: Of...

Tags:

Paris

Paris Agreement

Paris Climate Accord

survey

Your Sides

Twitter’s New Safety Tools: What do you think?

Your Sides

/ June 5th, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

twitter.jpg

Yesterday, I opened the Twitter app on my phone and noticed a message at the top of the screen encouraging me to check out Twitter’s new “safety tools.” When I clicked on the link, it took me to a page headlined, “You’re in control with our new safety tools,” outlining new ways for users...

Tags:

Twitter

Filter Bubbles

Bias

Your Sides

Trump Pulls America Out of Climate Deal

News

/ June 1st, 2017 / By JohnSGable

104503768-GettyImages-664899110-donald-trump.530x298.jpg

Today at a press conference in the Rose Garden, President Trump officially pulled America out of the Paris Climate Accord. The deal was negotiated between 192 countries, with the U.S. joining Syria and Nicaragua as the holdouts. The Left is pretty firmly against the decision, while the...

Tags:

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Paris Climate Accord

Paris Agreement

Climate Change

Environment

Net Neutrality Survey Findings

Your Sides

/ June 1st, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

neut.jpg

Last week, we asked our users to tell us how they felt about net neutrality after hearing a pro-net neutrality argument from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and a counter argument from Reason’s show Mostly Weekly. We set up a survey in which people could tell us their political...

Tags:

Net Neutrality

Your Sides

Trump's 1st Budget Announced

News

/ May 25th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

650-052317-Mick-Mulvaney.jpg

Mick Mulvaney, the White House Budget Director, revealed President Trump's budget for 2018 titled A New Foundation for American Greatness . As expected, the response has been mixed. Many people on the Left decry the cuts to social programs , while those on the Right who believe our...

Tags:

News

Budget/Debt

Mick Mulvaney

Donald Trump

Net Neutrality: Where do you stand?

Your Sides

/ May 24th, 2017 / By jaymeecopenhaver

john-oliver.jpg

A few weeks ago, the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver posted a video about net neutrality (warning: the video does contain foul language). In it, host John Oliver presents his argument about why net neutrality is a good thing through comedy, a style that many people refer to as...

Tags:

Net Neutrality

John Oliver

Internet

Your Sides

Special Counsel Appointed

News

/ May 18th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-05-18 at 2.49.37 PM.png

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to be the special counsel overseeing the investigation into any links between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. The appointment has been praised by Democrats and many Republicans. However, some...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Robert Mueller

FBI

FBI Director Comey Fired

News

/ May 11th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

55914958.jpg

President Trump made the shocking move this week to fire FBI Director James Comey. Trump has stated that he terminated Comey due to his mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, but many in the media (and Congress) are hypothesizing it has more to do with the FBI's investigation...

Tags:

News

James Comey

FBI

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Happy Teacher Appreciation!

Site

/ May 10th, 2017 / By lpinto

AllSides-symbol-big.png

Thank you to those of you who took our schools program feedback survey (Haven't taken the survey yet? You can still take it! ). What did we learn? Well, by far the News page is the most used content in the classroom. But don't forget to check out the Dictionary or Relationships First ! We...

Tags:

Schools

House Passes American Health Care Act

News

/ May 4th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-05-04 at 2.46.38 PM.png

The US House of Representatives voted to pass the AHCA, moving the GOP one step closer to repealing and replacing Obamacare. The bill's initial version failed to pass following a contentious struggle among conservatives, but the addition of the MacArthur Amendment helped woo skeptical...

Tags:

Healthcare

AHCA

Story of the Week

News

Trump Tax Plan

News

/ April 27th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-04-27 at 3.34.02 PM.png

President Trump released his tax plan this week, calling for an overhaul of current economic policy. The plan includes major cuts for both individuals and businesses, but economic analysts on both the Left and the Right say its impact on the federal deficit could be counterproductive...

Tags:

Taxes

Donald Trump

Tax Plan

News

Story of the Week

GA Congressional Election

News

/ April 20th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

19georgia-01-master768.jpg

The fight to " flip the 6th " continued this week, with Democrats hoping to put one of their own in a long help Republican congressional seat in Georgia. Jon Ossoff (D) would have needed to win over 50% of the vote on Tuesday to take the seat, but he narrowly missed it with 48.1%,...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Georgia

Jon Ossoff

Election

Tensions Rise Over Syria

News

/ April 13th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

BN-SX394_TILLER_J_20170411112010.jpg

After Syrian President Assad allegedly carried out a chemical weapons attack on his own people last week, Donald Trump unleashed a missile strike on a Syrian air base the night of April 6th. Since then, Russia has condemned the attacks but accusations are swirling that Putin had prior...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Syria

missile strike

Donald Trump

Vladimir Putin

Rex Tillerson

Senate GOP Goes Nuclear

News

/ April 6th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

07gorsuch-mcconnell-largeHorizontal375-v3.jpg

After the filibuster from the Senate Democrats began to protest the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell invoked the "nuclear option". The nuclear option, which is simply a rules change, was used because Republicans were five votes shy of being able to end the...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

GOP

Nuclear Option

Republican Party

Senate

Brexit Begins

News

/ March 30th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-03-30 at 2.52.28 PM.png

This week, the UK began formal Brexit proceedings, the long process of withdrawing from the European Union. Theresa May delivered Article 50 to the European Council, the first step in a two year long process. In April or May, the Council will meet to finalize the negotiation process. They...

Tags:

Brexit

Great Britain

Theresa May

Story of the Week

News

Healthcare Vote

News

/ March 23rd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

8-trump-ryan.w710.h473.jpg

The vote on the AHCA was supposed to happen today, the 7th anniversary of the ACA, but it got delayed. The plan to repeal and replace Obamacare has been heavily debated since it was released. The Republicans in the House could only afford to lose 21 votes and it looked as though they...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Healthcare

ACA

AHCA

Obamacare

Trumpcare

Trump's Budget Plan

News

/ March 16th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

17budget1-master768.jpg

The White House released President Trump's budget plan this morning. The budget makes major cuts to the State Department and the EPA, while eliminating funding to the National Endowment for the Arts and 18 other departments. It designates additional funding to the Department of Defense...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Budget

budget cuts

Obamacare Replacement

News

/ March 9th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

170308105300-paul-ryan-ahca-large-169.jpg

The Republicans revealed their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, meeting with cheers and jeers. The plan already passed the first hurdle , moving through the House Ways and Means Committee. But it's receiving heavy criticism from a myriad of Healthcare groups , from the American...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

ACA

Obamacare

Republican Party

AHCA

Obamacare repeal

Message to Joint Congress

News

/ March 2nd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

170228212727-09-trump-joint-address-congress-exlarge-169.jpg

President Trump gave his first joint address to the members of the House and Senate on Tuesday . The speech has been widely seen as his best to date, but views vary widely on how much importance should be placed on his ability to deliver it. Media on the right are saying that this was the...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Joint Address to Congress

Deportation Push

News

/ February 23rd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-02-23 at 4.00.56 PM.png

The administration is taking actions to increase arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants , supposedly prioritizing those who break more serious laws. Trump and many of his supporters feel the previous administration was too lax, while others considered President Obama to be the "...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Deportations

Immigration

Flynn Resigns Over Russia Talks

News

/ February 16th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

170214-flynn-cr-0442_01_999c6def0cc7918a1e03c7b665993583.nbcnews-fp-320-240.jpg

This week, General Michael Flynn stepped down from his post as National Security Advisor to President Trump after it was revealed that he talked to the Russians, possibly about sanctions. Flynn served the shortest ever term for a White House employee, just three weeks. The question that...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Michael Flynn

Russia

Civility or Free Speech?

News

/ February 9th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

hqdefault.jpg

At AllSides, we admittedly have a general bias in favor of free speech and civil discourse. So what should we think about Elizabeth Warren's words on the Senate floor and the action to silence her? Senate Rule 19 started 115 years ago in response to a fistfight in the Capitol. Rules in...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Elizabeth Warren

Senate

Mitch McConnell

Gorsuch Tapped for Supreme Court

News

/ February 2nd, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-02-02 at 4.00.10 PM.png

President Trump named his nominee to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court this week, Neil Gorsuch. While the country reacts to the announcement , Senate Democrats are still thinking about the appointment of Merrick Garland and are considering filibustering the vote on Gorsuch, which would...

Tags:

Story of the Week

Neil Gorsuch

News

Supreme Court

Trump's First Week

News

/ January 26th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

170123004130-trump-first-week-political-fights-raju-pkg-00001002-exlarge-tease.jpg

Donald Trump has been president for almost a week now. And it's been a busy week. On Saturday , the new president signed his first executive order which signaled the start to dismantling to Obamacare . Monday morning Trump announced the US would be pulling out of TPP . On Tuesday , Trump...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Donald Trump

White House

Cabinet Hearings Begin

News

/ January 19th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

p19-Dream-Cabinet-589x620.jpg

The confirmation hearings began this week for Trump's cabinet picks. The nominees faced questions both personal and professional, both ethical and hypothetical. Sen. Al Franken stated that he expects some cabinet picks to be confirmed by the end of the week, while other senators are...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Cabinet

Investigations into Hacking: Needed or Not?

News

/ January 5th, 2017 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2017-01-05 at 5.39.45 PM.png

Though President-elect Trump has been telling people to "move on", the FBI and CIA are continuing to investigate if Russia had a role in hacking during the election. Obama was briefed today and Trump will be tomorrow . Trump has been outspoken in his feelings towards the intelligence...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Russia

Hacking

CIA

FBI

Is Obama Administration Anti-Israel or Pro-Peace?

News

/ December 29th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

john-kerry-israel-un-resolution-speech-b.jpg

The Obama Administration broke with long held tradition this week by allowing the United Nations to condemn Israel actions and then, through Secretary of State John Kerry, accusing the Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining efforts for peace. While Kerry defended the...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

John Kerry

Israel

Russia: Friend or Foe

News

/ December 15th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2016-12-15 at 7.09.08 PM.png

Our relationship and future path with Russia has been a consistent undercurrent in much of the news this week. First there was Donald Trump's pick of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State and the mixed reactions to that cabinet pick . Some applauded Tillerson's extensive international...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Russia

Donald Trump

Pizzagate and Fake News

News

/ December 8th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

Pizzagate-Comet-Ping-Pong-Shooter.jpg

With the events of "Pizzagate", many are left questioning the influence that "fake news" has on people. Should social media networks do more to crack down on the spread of fake stories? Or would that just create an unaccountable central authority that censors information, capable of...

Tags:

Story of the Week

fake news

News

Pizzagate

Remaking the Presidency with Trump Cabinet

News

/ December 1st, 2016 / By JohnSGable

trumpcabinet_getty_lead.jpg

As President-elect slowly rolls out picks for his cabinet, the public continues to find everything wrong, and right, with each one. There are still many poisitons to fill, not the least of which is Secretary of State. Of those chosen so far , some have been firm supporters of his from the...

Tags:

Donald Trump

White House

Cabinet

News

Story of the Week

Civil Conversation on Thanksgiving

News

/ November 23rd, 2016 / By JohnSGable

iStock_000020846560_Small.jpg

Every year around this time, but especially this year, we think about how holiday gatherings sometimes devolve into bitter arguments about political matters. If your family chooses not to talk about politics, there's advice for staying away from controversial topics . If you do end up...

Tags:

Thanksgiving

Holidays

Holiday Table Conversations

Recommended Reading

/ November 23rd, 2016 / By JohnSGable

4136809491_fe29c3093c_b.jpg

Happy Thanksgiving from AllSides! Every year around this time, we think about how holiday gatherings sometimes devolve into bitter arguments about political matters, and that's not what we want to see in the world. We're about seeing all sides through thoughtful consideration and lively,...

Tags:

Thanksgiving

Holidays

bipartisan

Announcing The AllSides Dictionary!

Site

/ November 16th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

education-390764_960_720.jpg

Dear AllSides Community, Since the results of this election have come out, the nation has been rigorously divided. People are feeling joyous, upset, rebellious or thankful. More than ever, these times show how divided we have become. But whether you're delighted or depressed, it's...

Tags:

President-Elect Trump

News

/ November 10th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

636142777264113646-AP-2016-Election-Trump-NYDT1.jpg

The election ended this week when Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land. Hillary Clinton received slightly more of the national vote, but Trump won outright in Electoral votes. There have been radically different reactions from the public from nationwide protests of "...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton

Election: Presidential

Online News Sites Announce Trump Victory - With Excitement or Horror

News

/ November 9th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

TrumpNewsFrontPages.jpg

While there is some nice coverage about how print newspapers are covering the election results on their front pages - see Newspaper front pages cover Trump's victory – in pictures , we should also look at how it is being covered online. After all, these online sites are the primary news...

Tags:

Election: Presidential

Donald Trump

News

The Final Days of Election 2016

News

/ November 3rd, 2016 / By JohnSGable

BN-QN397_1029cl_GR_20161029160657.jpg

As the final days of the 2016 presidential election approach and people head to the polls, will any of the October (or November) surprises change their vote? With FBI Director Comey's decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails at a time when it won't be finished by...

Tags:

Story of the Week

News

Election: Presidential

Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump

FBI

Emails

The Drip, Drip, Drip of WikiLeaks

News

/ October 27th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

_92101268_hi035957637.jpg

Today marked the twentieth release of hacked emails from John Podesta, the Chairman of the Clinton campaign from WikiLeaks. Over the past few weeks WikiLeaks and Jullian Assange have been releasing tens of thousands of emails from the former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton,...

Tags:

News

Story of the Week

WikiLeaks

Hillary Clinton

John Podesta

Free Market Pricing is the Medicine to Heal Health Care Ills

Recommended Reading

/ October 24th, 2016 / By Beth Ballentine

6793824321_398d881757_b.jpg

Editor's note - This is an opinion piece. For further reading and opposing viewpoints, check out Why does U.S. health care cost so much? The hidden-in-plain-sight answer or Why Is American Health Care So Ridiculously Expensive? And if you have read articles that provide alternative points...

Tags:

Healthcare

ACA

Obamacare

Healthcare Reform

Health Insurance

Missing Perspectives

Third Debate & Election Integrity

News

/ October 20th, 2016 / By JohnSGable

Screen Shot 2016-10-20 at 4.54.55 PM.png

The third presidential debate, which is widely considered to have been the most substantial discussion of policy, occurred in Las Vegas last night. The most talked about moment didn't come when Hillary was asked about the DNC coordinated effort to incite violence at Trump rallies . It...

Don’t be fooled by media bias and fake news.

Don’t be fooled by media bias and fake news.

Perspectives from across the political spectrum