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Aug 10 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Partisan Divide Emerges on Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act
Each week, AllSides Media Bias Alerts examine media bias in coverage of a major or important story using the AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and our AllSides Media Bias Chart™.
The Inflation Reduction Act (a scaled-back version of Biden’s defunct Build Back Better legislation) recently passed in the Senate after over a year of negotiation. Worth roughly $740 billion, the bill contains
Clare AshcraftJan 06 2021
Analysis
What Happens When the Senate Is Split 50-50?
With Democrats winning both Senate seats in Georgia, the chamber will have a balance of 50-50, enough for their party to secure control there for the first time in six years. With President-elect Joe Biden set to be inaugurated on Jan. 20, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will then become the tiebreaking vote in the Senate.
Here are some questions and answers about the implications of
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 21 2021
News
Congressional ethics investigators find 'substantial reason to believe' Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski violated federal conflict-of-interest rules
The independent Office of Congressional Ethics found "substantial reason to believe" that Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey violated federal rules or laws designed to promote transparency and defend against conflicts of interest, according to investigation documents released Thursday.
In its 5-1 vote, the Office of Congressional Ethics formally referred its Malinowski
Business InsiderJun 05 2013
Opinion
Opinion: Nominations show democracy on trial in Senate
With battles ahead over President Obama's choices for Secretary of Labor, EPA administrator, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, and the National Labor Relations Board - and with fights over the nation's second most important court likely to follow - democracy itself is on trial in the U.S. Senate.
PoliticoJan 06 2021
Analysis
Can Mike Pence Really Overturn the Election?
After two months of failed efforts to pressure local election officials, state legislatures, and even his own attorney general to help overturn November’s presidential election, President Donald Trump on Tuesday set up a new scapegoat for his defeat: Mike Pence. In a late-morning tweet, Trump claimed that Pence has the unilateral authority during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to
SlateAug 10 2021
Analysis
Raphael Warnock’s plan to neutralize a GOP takeover of Georgia elections, explained
Warnock’s political career — and democracy in Georgia — could hinge on the most dangerous provision of the state’s new voter suppression law.
Late last month, Georgia Republicans began a process that could end with them seizing control of election administration in Fulton County — a Democratic stronghold that encompasses most of Atlanta.
Under Georgia’s new election law, SB 202,
VoxMay 12 2021
News
House GOP boots Liz Cheney from leadership post
House Republicans on Wednesday ousted Rep. Liz Cheney as House GOP conference chair and set the stage for her to be replaced with someone less keen on challenging former President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims and lingering grip on the party.
Ms. Cheney was removed by a voice vote.
The leadership shakeup comes as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tries to keep members
Washington TimesSep 13 2022
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Debate: The Queen is Dead. Should Americans Care?
Should Americans care about Queen Elizabeth II’s death?
The answer differs, depending on who you ask.
When the queen passed away at the age of 96 last week, it immediately became the biggest story in the world. But how much should it matter to people here in the U.S.? Do Americans actually care? How should they remember her? Why?
Those questions sparked a debate between
AllSides StaffFeb 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
We Do Not Draw the Line: Braver Angels & Censorship
From the CenterNote: this piece was orignally published on braverangels.org.
Many of us are drawing lines, in our lives and within our own institutions, as to who we associate with and what people should be allowed to say. At the very least we are quicker to condemn opinions held even by people we agree with on most things because we fear what they mean for America. The recent
John R. Wood Jr.Apr 20 2016
Opinion
OPINION: This election is an unpopularity contest for the ages
The 2016 presidential election is shaping up as an unpopularity contest of unprecedented proportions.
Assuming, as now appears most likely, that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination and that either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz becomes the Republican nominee, the general-election ballot is set to feature a choice between two candidates more negatively viewed than any major-
Ruth Marcus