Perspectives Blog

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...