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Jan 16 2020
News
Democrats release more Parnas evidence, including voicemails with Trump associates
House impeachment investigators released a new set of evidence that was obtained from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani — including voicemails, photos, and text messages between Parnas and high-level figures within Trump’s orbit.
The material includes voicemail messages Parnas received from Giuliani and Victoria
Politico
May 03 2021
Analysis
Decision on Donald Trump’s Facebook Ban Is Coming on Wednesday. Here’s How It Will Work.
Facebook Inc.’s independent oversight board said it would issue a ruling Wednesday morning that could determine whether former President Donald Trump can return to the company’s Facebook and Instagram platforms. Facebook was among social-media platforms that suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 22 2020
Opinion
Getting Counted for Fun and Profit
Pack up the pompoms and megaphones. The census is over. Every 10 years liberals in Hollywood and the media cheer on blue states and cities as they run up the score on their population counts.
The census is mandated by the Constitution, and congressional apportionment depends on it. But the cheerleaders seemed mainly interested in money, not civics. Coast to coast, the mantra was the
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
May 24 2021
News
Secret Recordings Reveal Officials Discussing 'Filthy' Conditions of 4,632 Immigrant Kids Held in Texas Tent Camp
More than 4,500 immigrant children and teens are being held in enormous, filthy tents on a military base in Texas without access to basic necessities, including underwear, according to interviews, photos, documents, and recordings obtained by Reason. Hundreds of senior federal employees from various agencies have been detailed to the facility, where they are being highly compensated
Reason
Sep 02 2021
Analysis
GOP douses Afghanistan withdrawal with misinformation
The Afghanistan withdrawal has gone poorly enough for the Biden administration, and it did itself no favors with its faulty predictions about how it would be carried out.
But even in the midst of the worst stretch of the Biden presidency thus far, the lure of misinformation has proved irresistible to its GOP critics.
They’ve trafficked repeatedly in recent days in false,
Washington Post
Feb 09 2021
Analysis
Inclusion must be front and center in President Biden’s focus on clean energy jobs
President Joe Biden capped his first week in office at the end of January with a sweeping set of executive actions on climate change, tackling issues such as conservation, environmental justice, and evidence-based policymaking. But despite the wide scope, media scrutiny focused mainly on the number of jobs a climate push might generate, including a burst of fact-checking on whether Biden’s
Brookings Institution
May 17 2016
Opinion
Behind Facebook's trending news feed, a deeper flaw
Most of the analysis of Facebook’s news bias is missing the point. The ideas inherent in 'trending news' are problematic. Make no mistake, Facebook’s Trending News and the possibility that it suppresses conservative viewpoints is a very big deal. Since 41 percent of United States adults get news from Facebook, this has a huge impact.
But most of the analysis is missing the main point.
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Oct 07 2015
Background
Do Political Beliefs Affect Math?
According to a recent study by Dan Kahan at Yale, even the brightest among us can get a math problem wrong if the right answer goes against our politics.
It turns out that both liberals and conservatives let political bias affect their calculations - and it appears to be unconscious.
Think that being a math whiz can protect you from such mistakes? Think again. The better that
AllSides
Aug 13 2020
News
How "cancel culture" changed these three lives forever
In this politically divided and social-media-driven age, "cancel culture" has touched nearly every part of American public life. Politicians, celebrities, CEOs, athletes, media executives — even knitting influencers have experienced getting "canceled." Here are the stories of three everyday people who ended up on one side or the other of a "cancel" controversy.
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CBS News (Online)
Apr 30 2021
Perspectives Blog
Biden moved left. But is he dividing or uniting the country?
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on usatoday.com under the headline, "Biden said he wanted to unite Americans. Then he moved further to the political left."
In our world where agreement, especially among the politically fractured media, is rare, there seems to be a general consensus on one thing: President Joe Biden is governing further left than expected. From The New
AllSides Staff