Perspectives Blog

President Trump's war with the mainstream media reached new heights this week when he tweeted a controversial video of himself attacking the CNN logo. While his actions received condemnation from several news outlets, coverage of the tweet varied drastically across the partisan divide...

After releasing the Senate healthcare bill last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote until after summer recess. Several Republican Senators have decided against supporting the bill and with the Democrats unified in opposition, the future of the bill is uncertain...

After much secrecy, Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans revealed their updated version of the AHCA today. As McConnell pushes for a vote before the summer recess, a few Republican Senators say the bill does not go far enough to dismantle Obamacare and therefore will not vote to...

Yesterday morning in Alexandria, VA, a gunman opened fire on the GOP's Congressional Baseball Game practice, critically wounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). In the wake of the shooting, leaders from both sides of the aisle have come together expressing calls for unity, and...

In an open session in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee today, James Comey the former FBI Director, testified for close to 3 hours. After a short break, he then spoke for another hour in a closed session, most likely containing classified information. It remains to be seen what...

Yesterday, I opened the Twitter app on my phone and noticed a message at the top of the screen encouraging me to check out Twitter’s new “safety tools.” When I clicked on the link, it took me to a page headlined, “You’re in control with our new safety tools,” outlining new ways for users...

Last week, we asked our users to tell us how they felt about net neutrality after hearing a pro-net neutrality argument from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and a counter argument from Reason’s show Mostly Weekly. We set up a survey in which people could tell us their political...

A few weeks ago, the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver posted a video about net neutrality (warning: the video does contain foul language). In it, host John Oliver presents his argument about why net neutrality is a good thing through comedy, a style that many people refer to as...

President Trump made the shocking move this week to fire FBI Director James Comey. Trump has stated that he terminated Comey due to his mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, but many in the media (and Congress) are hypothesizing it has more to do with the FBI's investigation...