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Story of the Week: Biden VP Search Ends; Harris has Chance to Make History

Story of the Week / August 11th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Former vice president and presumptive democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden named Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) as his running mate in a tweet Tuesday. Harris, the Senate’s only black woman, previously served as San...

Story Of The Week, 2020 Election, Elections, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, White House

Story of the Week: Speculation Swirls Around Biden VP Pick

Story of the Week / August 6th, 2020 / By Micaela Ricaforte

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to choose a 2020 running mate in the coming weeks, winding down a polarized selection process that elicited zest for progress on one side, and scorn for purported...

Story Of The Week, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Kamala Harris, 2020 Election, Elections, White House

Many Left-Rated Sources Ignore Police Security Withdrawal From DNC

News / August 4th, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi

This year’s Democratic National Convention will take place from August 17-20 in Milwaukee (otherwise known as the second best city on Lake Michigan), where former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to be crowned the party’s nominee for president. But weeks before Milwaukee is set to...

Police Reform, Media Bias, Criminal Justice, Police Brutality, Elections, 2020 Election, DNC, Milwaukee, Democratic Party

When China Wins the Next U.S. Election

News / August 3rd, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

In a hyper-polarized political environment like ours, it’s not often that we can identify a policy area where there is strong bipartisan agreement. But even in the middle of this scorched-earth campaign season, there is one critical issue on which Democrats and Republicans have achieved a...

China, Polarization, Elections, 2020 Election

When the United States Turns Away From the World

News / July 15th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

This past week’s political headlines were dominated by chatter about presidential facemasks and executive clemency. But there was less noticeable and more important news that surfaced as well, which underscored the continued retreat of the United States from its role on the world stage...

World, Foreign Policy, Trade, Elections, 2020 Election, Joe Biden, Donald Trump

Media Bias Alert: Mainstream Media Covers Ye, But Not Jo

News / July 10th, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi

If you've been following AllSides this week, you probably read that rapper Kanye West announced that he’s seeking a presidential bid. While this announcement earned plenty of mainstream media attention, major outlets haven’t provided much information on a campaign arguably of equal or...

Elections, 2020 Election, Kanye West, Jo Jorgensen

When the Virus Moves to Red States

News / June 30th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

For most of the spring, COVID-19 was primarily a blue-state pandemic. While conservative areas of the country were hit by the virus as well, the types of densely populated urban areas that tend to vote Democrat absorbed the overwhelming majority of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. For...

Coronavirus, Republican Party, Polarization, Elections, 2020 Election

When Trump Worries Out Loud

News / June 23rd, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

Is President Donald Trump getting nervous? There are four and a half months until the election, which is more than enough time for the presidential campaign to turn upside down any number of times. But whether through Twitter, interviews or speeches, Trump has always tended to broadcast...

Donald Trump, White House, Elections, 2020 Election, Campaign Rhetoric, Voting Rights And Voter Fraud

Will June Protesters Be November Voters?

News / June 3rd, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

When there’s blood on the streets of American cities, a discussion of polling data may not sound particularly exciting. But especially for those who are grieving the recent tragedies in Minneapolis, Louisville and too many other places, give me just a minute to run through some numbers...

Elections, 2020 Election, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Voting

Media Bias Alert: Stacey Abrams’s Polarized Vice Presidency Push

News / May 25th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Who is Stacey Abrams? The 46-year old Georgia politician, who in 2018 became the country’s first female major-party African-American gubernatorial nominee, is one of the names being discussed prominently as Joe Biden’s potential 2020 running mate. But how you answer that first question...

Media Bias, Elections, 2020 Election, Stacey Abrams

Media Bias Alert: N.Y. Times Edits Biden Investigation — After Biden Campaign Complains

Bias / April 16th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

One of the country’s most powerful newspapers published an investigation of a sexual assault allegation against a top presidential candidate. When the candidate’s campaign complained about how the investigation worded detail of some of the candidate’s previously-known inappropriate...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Joe Biden, Elections, 2020 Election

5 Tools to Avoid Media Manipulation This Election Year

Bias / April 15th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

As the 2020 presidential election ramps up, you may find yourself overwhelmed. Political ads, viral memes, heated commentators, social media sparring — there’s plenty of noise in a nation that seems deeply divided about the direction of our country, and everyone seems to be trying to sway...

Media Bias, AllSides, Election 2020, 2020 Election

Story of the Week: Bernie Sanders Ends Presidential Campaign, Endorses Biden

Story of the Week / April 9th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. COVID-19 is disrupting almost everything about life as we know it. We at AllSides, along with many of our partner organizations, want to do our part in helping you get through it by providing the latest data,...

Story Of The Week, Bernie Sanders, Elections, 2020 Election

Non-Citizens Influenced the Primaries, Earning Praise from Left Media, Critique from Right

Bias / March 11th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

As the United States enters a chaotic election season, media outlets on the left and right offered very different perspectives on how non-citizen activism might play a role in the 2020 election. Ahead of Super Tuesday, a headline from Breitbart (which AllSides gives a Right media bias...

Media Bias, Liberal Media Bias, Conservatives, Immigration, Illegal Immigration, 2020 Election

Story of the Week: Biden Shines On Super Tuesday

Story of the Week / March 7th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Fresh off a rejuvenating primary win in South Carolina on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden won 10 of 14 states on Super Tuesday 2020, cementing himself as an apparent frontrunner for the Democratic nomination alongside Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Biden's surge was coupled with...

Story Of The Week, Elections, 2020 Election, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren

Media Bias Divides Coverage of Klobuchar's Bill Maher Appearance

Bias / February 18th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

A recent height comparison of U.S. politicians spurred the latest example of media bias, differing narratives on either side of the party line, and a journalistic laziness that, when sanctioned, can cater to misinformation. Minnesota Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar (D...

Media Bias, Amy Klobuchar, Elections, 2020 Election, Campaign Rhetoric

Story of the Week: Bernie Sanders Wins NH Primary, Gains Momentum

Story of the Week / February 14th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won Tuesday's Democratic primary in New Hampshire with 26% of the vote, building momentum as the party's apparent 2020 front runner. Sanders was followed closely by former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg (24%) after the two emerged neck-and-neck from...

Story Of The Week, Elections, 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar

Media Bias Alert: Higher Poll Numbers Don’t Always Mean More Democratic Debate Questions

News / September 9th, 2019 / By Henry A. Brechter

Presidential debates are inevitably scrutinized for how many questions were asked of each candidate and how much speaking time each candidate was allowed. On the 2020 Democratic debate stage, the largest field of candidates in U.S. history, the number of questions asked can make or break...

Media Bias, News, Presidential Elections, 2020 Election, Democratic Party

Media Bias Alert: New York Times and Fox News Reveal Divide on Electoral College

Bias / August 26th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

Last week, a Colorado federal appeals court ruled that presidential electors in the Electoral College have the right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice, regardless of which candidate won the state’s popular vote. Coverage of the ruling in the New York Times , which...

Media Bias, Electoral College, Voting, 2020 Election, Presidential Elections

Story of the Week: Second Dem Debates Reveal Party Infighting

Story of the Week / August 7th, 2019 / By Henry A. Brechter

Detroit played host to the second round of 2020 Democratic presidential debates on Tuesday and Wednesday, in a combative showing that outlined key differences in policy priorities and ideologies among the 20 candidates. On both nights, candidates sparred over topics ranging from...

Story Of The Week, 2020 Election, Democratic Party, Campaign Rhetoric

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