Perspectives Blog

Contradictory media coverage is never more apparent than in an election year, and the biases on each side of the news spectrum get stronger the closer we get to November. This is a season when even the “hard numbers” of polling statistics are described in strikingly different ways, as we...

In this week's headlines, we’ve seen a lot about Trump expressing a shift in the topic he’s been famous for in his campaign: immigration. He spoke of “softening” on deportations and that he’d like to “work with” non-criminal undocumented immigrants. How is this being received? Does it...

This was one of those weeks when sources on the Left, Right, and Center have largely focused on entirely different stories. For example, while the Left has been talking about Trump’s campaign woes and the J ustice Department’s findings of bias in the Baltimore Police Department , the...

Police racism and brutality are topics that have people drawing sides. Part I of this series describes how many of us tend to focus on one aspect of the problem without considering, or sometimes even hearing, opposing points. Often the information we gather, whether from the media or from...

Read Parts II , III and IV Lately the media has seemed inundated with reports of alleged police brutality. Now, the recent murders of policemen in Dallas and Baton Rouge add another wrinkle to this grave issue. Demonstrations against police racism vie against rallies to support slain...

The 2016 Republican National Convention has received a great deal of coverage and attention, especially compared to the RNC of four years ago . Every day a new drama has captured the media’s attention. With Donald Trump’s highly anticipated convention speech happening tonight , let’s look...

While headlines today are heating up with news of the GOP VP pick and next week’s convention, the biggest story over the last week has been the three different violent incidents that rocked the nation with shock, outrage, grief, and protests. These are times when media coverage and...

The British withdrawal from the European Union topped headlines this week. Opinions from left to right ran strong about what Brexit means for issues like immigration, racism, the world economy, and the US presidential election. This week we bring you some contrasting Brexit stories from...

On Wednesday , a group of House Democrats staged something new: a sit-in to protest a lack of action on gun control. The 25-hour occupation caught the attention of social media. By sitting in, were the Democrats standing up for something that most Americans support - or was it a time-...