AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Jul 29 2021
Opinion
Fact-Checkers Rewrite the History of Democrats’ Vaccine Skepticism
With the Biden administration’s big push to vaccinate more Americans, PolitiFact, one of the media’s most consistently dishonest “factchecking” outfits, decided to rewrite history:
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been pushing Americans to get inoculated against COVID-19. But a video on social media suggests that they actually had reservations about the safety
David Harsanyi
Jul 21 2020
Analysis
The Problem in Portland Isn’t the Law; It’s the Lawlessness
Despite some occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assures us that Antifa “protesters” are “largely peaceful.” And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle, and Denver haven’t been looted yet, who am I to argue?
Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform
National Review (News)
Feb 05 2021
Analysis
Democrats Go Ape Over DC Violence While Ignoring Riots, Murder, And Mayhem Everywhere Els
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is once again at the center of online debates, as left and right battle over an Instagram livestream where she described her experience during the latest riot at the U.S. Capitol by telling her audience, “I thought I was going to die.”
The right argued that Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t actually in any danger. Rioters that day never breached the
The Federalist
Mar 24 2021
Analysis
Trump Got China All Wrong. Now Biden Is Too.
Of all the Trump administration’s many foreign-policy missteps, its confrontational stance on China was perhaps the most ungainly. Spurts of negotiation on trade and intellectual property were followed by escalating tariffs on Chinese imports that were paid by U.S. companies. These provoked retaliatory Chinese actions that necessitated tens of billions of dollars of aid to U.S farmers
Foreign Policy
Aug 29 2021
Analysis
Condemning Beijing’s Latest Assault on Freedom of the Press
In an escalating campaign to suppress freedom of speech, China’s communist authorities have arrested and charged 11 Chinese citizens for allegedly providing The Epoch Times with information documenting draconian virus lockdown measures.
The 11 citizens face up to life in prison if convicted, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
The Epoch
The Epoch Times
Jul 28 2021
Analysis
Big Tech, Watchdog Groups, and Law Enforcement Join Forces To Purge Extremists
Two recent tech stories—both appearing in Reuters—should make civil libertarians wary for the future: Social media sites and tech companies are partnering with watchdog groups and law enforcement to share information about so-called extremists using their platforms.
PayPal, for instance, will work with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to identify hate groups that use the platform to
Reason
Apr 08 2021
News
Arkansas Bans Transgender Treatment for Children
“Arkansas on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to ban certain types of treatment to transgender youth, overriding a veto by Governor Asa Hutchinson… The law threatens any healthcare professional who provides puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or gender-affirming surgery to minors with losing their medical license and opens them up to lawsuits from patients who later regret their procedures
The Flip Side
Jan 13 2021
News
Jared Kushner and Dan Scavino reportedly teamed up to keep Trump off fringe social media sites
There are reportedly two big reasons President Trump hasn't joined the social media sites where his far-right supporters tend to gather.
After a violent attack by Trump's supporters on the Capitol led many major social media platforms to ban the president and some of his allies, Trump could have headed to Parler, Gab, or other sites favored by conservatives. But Trump's son-in-law Jared
The Week - News
Jul 10 2021
Opinion
What Eric Adams’ New York Means For America
For a candidate defined by his haters for (perhaps purposeful) contradiction, Adams, in victory, couldn’t have been more clear. “America is failing in running cities,” Adams said, adding he was “the new face of the Democratic Party.”
Adams’ critics used to be to his right, seeing him in the Nineties as a “Brooklyn race hustler,” but with the added wrinkle that he was mobbed up with the
The American Conservative
Jul 28 2021
News
First person charged under Hong Kong security law found guilty
The first person charged under Hong Kong’s national security law has been found guilty of “terrorism” and “inciting secession”, in a landmark case with long-term implications for how the legislation reshapes the city’s common law traditions.
Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, 24, was accused of driving his motorcycle in July last year into three riot police officers while carrying a flag with
Al Jazeera