Perspectives Blog

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, students from Florida are pushing for increased gun control measures, such as a ban on assault weapons. After leading several protests across the state, a group from Stoneman Douglas High School appeared in a town hall led by CNN on Wednesday...

As I sat in the front row of Second Baptist Church of Boulder, Colorado waiting to be called up to join my fellow panelists, I found myself wondering what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would think of this moment. On this Saturday morning, some fifty years after he was assassinated,...

President Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, and reactions varied widely across the aisle. Many on the Right celebrated the speech as presidential, while many on the Left criticized Trump for what they felt was divisive rhetoric, particularly surrounding the...

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...

I used to think I knew what I stood for, what my make up as a person was. As the years go by, I’ve realized I’m not what I used to be. I have never wanted to be perceived with labels, but I knew where I fell. A conservative on the right, not the far right but let me make it clear that my...

Minnesota has some of the worst gaps in educational attainment in the country. That’s not really news anymore. What may be news to people living outside the state, however, is the degree of ethnic and class segregation in our apparently progressive “best places to live” Twin Cities. Our...

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...

Note: Based on user feedback, we changed The Daily Caller media bias to Far Right. We recently received a comment that expressed concern over the use of one of our right-wing news sources. The knee-jerk reaction might be to pin the blame on Breitbart, which we previously detailed our...

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...