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Story of the Week: US Nears Vaccine Approval as UK Gives First Doses

Story of the Week / December 10th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Updated 12/13/20 at 4:21 p.m. PT: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine on Friday evening, with inoculations expected to begin Monday. Updated 12/11/20 at...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine, Healthcare

How AllSides Ensures Accuracy When Describing Illegal Immigration

Recommended Reading / December 10th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

What phrases have you seen journalists use to describe people who come to the United States illegally? “Undocumented immigrants” has become a common way to refer to these individuals in media coverage, especially among left- and center-rated outlets , but also in news media throughout the...

AllSides Standards, Immigration, Illegal Immigration

When Fox News Gets Out-Foxed

Recommended Reading / December 9th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

The world of cable TV news used to be such a simple place. Fox was conservative, MSNBC was liberal and CNN was in the middle. But that was before Donald Trump became president, and those easy classifications have become much more complicated. During the 2016 presidential campaign, CNN...

Media Industry, Media Bias, Politics, Donald Trump

Reclaiming Nonviolence in the Age of Antiracism

Recommended Reading / December 9th, 2020 / By John R. Wood Jr.

Editor's Note: An abridged version of this essay was originally published on Persuasion.com , and the full version appeared on Braver Angels . We must surely have the answer, by now, to Langston Hughes’ question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” The poet wonders—“does it dry up like a...

Braver Angels, Race And Racism, Systemic Racism

How AllSides Covers Trans Issues and Trans Rights

Recommended Reading / December 8th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Elliot Page, the actor formerly known as Ellen Page, came out as transgender on Dec. 1. As news around trans issues and trans rights often does, the story elicited divides in news coverage. In addition to splits in reporting, the news raised questions for the AllSides editorial team. How...

AllSides Standards, LGBTQ Issues, Transgender Rights, Media Literacy

Unexpected Overlaps: Republican Voters Believe Humans Contribute to Climate Change, Support Limiting Emissions

Common Ground / December 7th, 2020 / By Max Karlin

During his campaign, Joe Biden ran on a plan for more aggressive climate change action. Among the changes, left-rated and right-rated sources confirm that former Secretary of State John Kerry will have a Cabinet-level role as a special envoy for climate and a seat on the National Security...

United News Roundup, Climate Change, Environment, Common Ground

How News Outlets Wrote About Elliot Page

Bias / December 4th, 2020 / By Joseph Ratliff

News publishers were faced with a test of their reporting standards on Tuesday when Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated actor formerly known as Ellen Page, came out as transgender. The rights and identities of trans people are a politically polarizing issue for some in the United States,...

Transgender Issues, LGBTQ Issues, Media Industry, Media Bias, Journalism, Hollywood, Entertainment, Movies, Netflix

Story of the Week: DOJ Says It Lacks Evidence of Decisive Voter Fraud

Story of the Week / December 3rd, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. U.S. Attorney General William Barr told the Associated Press Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that "could have affected a different outcome" in the...

Story Of The Week, Justice Department, 2020 Election, Voting Rights And Voter Fraud

An Unexpected Collaboration: Billionaires George Soros, Charles Koch Fund Veterans Groups With Common Goals

Recommended Reading / December 3rd, 2020 / By Marcia Beckford

Dan Caldwell and Will Fisher worked on the same cause, but on opposite sides of the aisle. Caldwell, then-Executive Director of Concerned Veterans for America , a conservative veterans advocacy organization, recalled the time he first met Fisher, the Director of Government Relations of...

United News Roundup, Veterans Affairs, Culture

When Two Parties Aren’t Enough For Some People

Recommended Reading / December 2nd, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

It is deeply frustrating for many Democrats that Dianne Feinstein and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are members of the same political party. Most Republicans are equally unhappy that they are forced to count both Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, Jr. within their ranks. Such is life in a two-party...

Democratic Party, Political Polarization, GOP, Unity

Media Bias Alert: Left Highlights Biden's All-Female Comms Team; Right Zooms in on CNN Ties

Bias / December 1st, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

In reporting on Joe Biden’s recent announcement of his White House communications staff , different sides of the media sometimes focused on completely different facts. Biden, who’s widely projected to be confirmed as the next U.S. president by the Electoral College next month, recently...

Media Bias, Joe Biden, Media Industry

A Conservative Who Liberals Often Enjoyed and Respected: Justice Antonin Scalia

Recommended Reading / November 30th, 2020 / By Bella Jasper

Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was deeply conservative. Yet many liberals admired his intellect and his way with words. He was gregarious, and many liberals even considered him a great friend. Even with his biting opinions, he could make liberals think more deeply...

United News Roundup, Antonin Scalia, Polarization, Culture

A Liberal Who Conservatives Often Enjoyed and Respected: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Recommended Reading / November 30th, 2020 / By Bella Jasper

This September, Americans of all political leanings grappled with the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away at the age of 87. Ginsburg, only the second female justice, spent 27 years on the nation’s high court amid numerous battles with cancer. Justice...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United News Roundup, Supreme Court, Polarization, Culture

Story of the Week: Coronavirus Collides with Thanksgiving

Story of the Week / November 26th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Due to public health concerns and instructions from authorities, many Americans are reconsidering their Thanksgiving celebrations amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Public health experts have advised against...

Story Of The Week, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Role Of Government, Coronavirus

Why Many on the Left Are Cutting off Trump Supporters

Recommended Reading / November 24th, 2020 / By Joseph Ratliff

A View from the Left Editor's Note: This piece is from a writer rated Lean Left. Get all sides of this topic by reading another view: No, It's Not Okay to Make Lists of Political Dissidents With Joe Biden’s widely-accepted projected victory in the 2020 presidential election , many on the...

Polarization, Don Lemon, Donald Trump, CNN, Trump Administration, White House

No, It’s Not Okay to Make Lists of Political Dissidents

Bias / November 24th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

A View from the Right Editor's Note: This piece is from a writer rated Lean Right. Get all sides of this topic by reading another view: Why Many On the Left Are Cutting Off Trump Supporters As many media outlets have declared Joe Biden the projected winner of the 2020 U.S. election , some...

Media Bias, Donald Trump, Civility

How Readers Rated the Media Bias of AP, BBC and The Epoch Times, and More

Bias / November 23rd, 2020 / By Rick Wytmar

In September, we released the findings of our August 2020 Blind Bias Survey , in which over 2,000 people across the political spectrum rated the media bias of five different news outlets blindly, seeing only their content and story choice but not the name of the news publication. Below...

AP Bias, New York Times, Bloomberg, Media Bias, Blind Bias Survey

Humans are Ultra-Social: COVID-19 Is Emotionally Tough This Thanksgiving, Politics Aside

Recommended Reading / November 23rd, 2020 / By Rolf Hendriks

When the U.S. economy was mostly shut down in a wide-ranging effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the impact was immediate and severe. Weekend destinations and lively centers of cultural activity, once packed with crowds of visitors, suddenly became empty and silent...

United News Roundup, Life During Covid-19, Coronavirus, Culture

Tools to Help You Bridge Divides This Thanksgiving

Recommended Reading / November 19th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Amid a global pandemic, Thanksgiving celebrations may look a bit different this year. For us at AllSides and our partner organizations, that makes our goals of promoting civility and unity across divides even more prevalent! Here are resources provided by us and several of our friends in...

Holidays, Thanksgiving

Story of the Week: Manufacturers Say COVID Vaccines are Safe, Highly Effective

Story of the Week / November 19th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Amid presidential election fallout and a national surge in COVID-19 coronavirus cases, two companies, Moderna and Pfizer, both announced significant progress on coronavirus vaccines . Tests have reportedly shown...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine

Perspectives Blog

How to Rebuild Trust in Elections According to Liberals and Conservatives