Tag: Story of the Week

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...