Perspectives Blog

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...

The US House of Representatives voted to pass the AHCA, moving the GOP one step closer to repealing and replacing Obamacare. The bill's initial version failed to pass following a contentious struggle among conservatives, but the addition of the MacArthur Amendment helped woo skeptical...

The fight to " flip the 6th " continued this week, with Democrats hoping to put one of their own in a long help Republican congressional seat in Georgia. Jon Ossoff (D) would have needed to win over 50% of the vote on Tuesday to take the seat, but he narrowly missed it with 48.1%,...

After the filibuster from the Senate Democrats began to protest the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell invoked the "nuclear option". The nuclear option, which is simply a rules change, was used because Republicans were five votes shy of being able to end the...

The vote on the AHCA was supposed to happen today, the 7th anniversary of the ACA, but it got delayed. The plan to repeal and replace Obamacare has been heavily debated since it was released. The Republicans in the House could only afford to lose 21 votes and it looked as though they...

The Republicans revealed their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, meeting with cheers and jeers. The plan already passed the first hurdle , moving through the House Ways and Means Committee. But it's receiving heavy criticism from a myriad of Healthcare groups , from the American...

The administration is taking actions to increase arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants , supposedly prioritizing those who break more serious laws. Trump and many of his supporters feel the previous administration was too lax, while others considered President Obama to be the "...

At AllSides, we admittedly have a general bias in favor of free speech and civil discourse. So what should we think about Elizabeth Warren's words on the Senate floor and the action to silence her? Senate Rule 19 started 115 years ago in response to a fistfight in the Capitol. Rules in...