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Mar 26 2019
News
Democrats plan to block Green New Deal in Senate vote Tuesday
The Senate will vote Tuesday to take up the Green New Deal, the progressives' prescription to battle climate change, but it is expected to be blocked by Democrats, who support many of the ideas in the plan but believe Republicans are trying to score political points by forcing a quick vote on the nascent proposal.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has made
CNN DigitalAug 06 2019
Opinion
After El Paso and Dayton, Three Ways to Think About Mass Shootings
“The worst is not,” Edgar says in “King Lear,” amid much—an old man’s madness, a father’s brutal blinding—that would seem about as bad as life can get, “So long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” The true worst, his point is, will be so annihilating that we will not even have language left to reference it. But, if finding words for the worst is not within our power, finding them for what’s
Guest Writer - LeftDec 30 2020
Analysis
Destination 2021: What we’ll do differently next year
As 2020 shudders to an end, many of us will be eager to move on, hoping that 2021 shows a path out of a pandemic that has upended our way of life. In that spirit, we asked Monitor writers and editors, near and far, to reflect on what COVID-19 has taken away and what, paradoxically, it has given us. It’s a journey into what we yearn to experience again and what we have come to appreciate most,
Christian Science MonitorNov 04 2014
News
Republican Governors Win Key Races
The GOP Beat Challenges in Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan, and Picked Up Three New States. Republicans won key gubernatorial races Tuesday as they beat back challenges in Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan, while picking up three new states, including the president’s home state of Illinois.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was re-elected in a boost for his presidential hopes in 2016, and
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 28 2012
News
Outspent on ads, Dems pay ‘trackers’ to tail candidates for dirt Read more: Outspent on ads, Dems pay 'trackers' to tail candidates for dirt
A George Soros-funded super PAC is vowing to send operatives to stake out Republican campaigns to hunt for and to record any gaffes or controversial statements the candidates may make. On Tuesday, American Bridge sent a fundraising plea to supporters asking for money to pay for “trackers, a term for political operatives who sometimes tail opponents. The organization, which includes both a
Washington TimesNov 03 2014
News
Millennial Voters Skewing Republican in Midterm Poll
The midterm-election polls are looking good for Republicans, and among millennials the numbers are, you might say, reddening, too. But there’s little in the picture that’s rosy, and even less that comes across as enthused. A national poll released Wednesday morning by the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, based on interviews with 2,029 Americans between
BloombergOct 23 2017
Perspectives Blog
Updating Our Media Bias Ratings: Editorial Review
Media bias ratings at AllSides are not set in stone. We like to think of them as alive, constantly growing and changing -- often driven by you, the reader. They are updated on a regular basis, using blind bias quizzes, community ratings, independent research, and editorial reviews.
Recently, we conducted our first blind editorial review, where we examined five
Lucy PintoNov 24 2020
Analysis
How lack of transparency, inconsistency hamper U.S. pandemic fight
As the pandemic surges nationwide in the United States, rules meant to curb the virus are testing not only the patience of many Americans, but also their reasoning.
What is the logic, for instance, behind closing the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., when scientists say it is safer to be outdoors than indoors? Why do the West Coast states – all run by Democrats and consulting each other
Christian Science MonitorOct 22 2014
News
Nation’s Confidence Ebbs at a Steady Drip
In taking office during two overseas wars and the Great Recession, President Obama set out to restore society’s frayed faith in its public institutions, saying that the question was not whether government was too big or small, “but whether it works.” Six years later, Americans seem more dubious than ever that it really does.
With every passing week or month, it seems, some government
New York Times (News)Feb 04 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Snopes “Fact Checks” a Subjective Opinion on AOC
From the RightThis piece is from a writer rated Lean Right.
Snopes today offered a clear example of how fact check outlets can be biased when it attempted to “fact check" the opinion that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exaggerated the danger she was in during the Capitol Hill storming, which she recently spoke about on Instagram Live.
Opinion statements presented as fact are
Julie Mastrine