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Jan 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
Not all polarization is bad, but the US could be in trouble
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Robert B. Talisse, a Professor of Philisophy at Vanderbilt University. The writer's bias has not been rated.
For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International
"The Conversation" ContributorSep 14 2013
News
US and Russia reach agreement in Syria weapons talks
Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syria's chemical weapons on the third day of intense negotiations in Geneva. Syria has one week to comply. And if Syrian leaders fail to comply, the United States and Russia will seek a United Nations Security Council resolution, Kerry and Lavrov said.
Fox News DigitalJul 01 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Major Rulings Issued as Supreme Court Session Ends
The Supreme Court issued the last decisions of its term Thursday morning, capping off a session that featured several key rulings. Among them: it voted 6-3 to uphold Arizona voting laws in a win for the GOP; it sided 8-1 with a high school student in a free speech case against her school; and it declined to hear a case regarding a school board's policy on transgender students and bathroom use
AllSides StaffMar 16 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Face it, Trump on course for nomination
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio will be the 2016 Republican nominee. After a humiliating defeat on Mega Tuesday, he finally bailed out -- closing down his campaign with an emotional speech that begged Republicans not to "surrender" to anger and fear. They almost did: Donald Trump scored big victories across the country and added hugely to his delegate count.
CNN DigitalMay 06 2019
Perspectives Blog
New Podcast: AllSides Discusses Media Bias on The First Five
AllSides CEO and co-founder John Gable appeared on the Freedom Forum Institute's First Five podcast to discuss all things media bias.
Gable joins Lata Nott, executive director of the Freedom Forum Institute's First Amendment Center, to discuss whether media bias is a bad thing, if AllSides has ever been accused of bias or posting fake news, how the business model of online news
Julie MastrineApr 30 2020
News
For Native Americans, coronavirus looks heartbreakingly familiar
Perhaps no community in North America has been more shaped by infectious disease than Native tribes. Overcoming today’s crisis means turning to deep wells of resilience.
For the first North Americans, memories of pandemics are long.
Lela Oman was an infant in Nome, Alaska, during the 1918 flu epidemic. Nome, on the far northwestern tip of the continent, had just gotten a
Christian Science MonitorJun 19 2020
News
GOP fears Biden's low-key campaign is paying off
Joe Biden hasn’t held a press conference in 77 days, but Democrats aren’t feeling much pressure to put their presumptive presidential nominee front and center at the moment.
Biden has, for the most part, kept a low profile throughout the coronavirus pandemic and weeks of demonstrations for racial justice across the country. Over that time, Biden has built up a healthy lead in the polls
The HillApr 12 2015
News
Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
Hillary Rodham Clinton will seek the presidency for a second time, her advisers said Sunday, ending two years of speculation and coy denials and immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.
The announcement came in emails from John Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, to donors and others.
The announcement effectively began what could be one of
New York Times (News)Sep 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
Where AllSides Team Members Fall on the Political Spectrum
Everyone is biased — that is one of the core beliefs here at AllSides. The best way to provide credible, balanced news is to have people with different political biases and leanings work together, supporting systems to reliably provide more balanced coverage.
That is what we do at AllSides. To create balanced, unbiased news and trustworthy media bias ratings, AllSides has a politically
Julie MastrineMar 21 2013
News
It's the Rubio and Rand Party, now
Want to know if Republicans finally back immigration reform stand a chance of picking up Senate seats in the midterms or get their act together by 2016 Instead of the GOP watch the Rubio-Paul Party. Forget John Boehner. Ignore Karl Rove. The real action in the GOP is coming from the newest wing of the party the one born in the spring of 2009 mdash...
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