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Jun 29 2021
News
Biden Weighs New Executive Order Restraining Big Business
The Biden administration is developing an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight of industries that they perceive to be dominated by a small number of companies, a wide-ranging attempt to rein in big business power across the economy, according to people familiar with the plans.
The executive order, which President Biden could sign as soon as next week, would direct
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 21 2021
Perspectives Blog
Democrats Seek Intraparty Compromise as Spending Plan is Cut Back
Democrats and President Joe Biden are downsizing their multi trillion-dollar spending plan, working to appease key centrist Democrats while preserving top party priorities and advancing the bill in a timely fashion. Biden has reportedly knocked the spending bill's price tag down from $3.5 trillion to between $1.75 and $1.9 trillion. Plans for two years of free community college, a $150
AllSides Staff
Oct 07 2021
Opinion
Republicans are siding with the angry mob
Republicans in Congress have seen the threat of mob violence, and they are going to do something about it.
They’re going to defend the mob, and make sure law enforcement doesn’t crack down too hard on it.
That’s the clear message being sent from up and down the right — politicians, pundits, and conservative media — in response to a memorandum from the Department of Justice laying
Washington Post
Aug 24 2021
Background
Key facts about the abortion debate in America
Nearly five decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, opponents and supporters of abortion rights are still battling over the issue in court, at the ballot box and in state legislatures. Several states have introduced or passed new restrictions on abortion in 2021 with an eye toward giving the Supreme Court a chance to overturn its decision in Roe, and the high court agreed
Pew Research Center
Aug 24 2021
News
Showdown on Capitol Hill: Moderate Democrats Hold Firm on Infrastructure Standoff with Pelosi, House Leadership
Lawmakers are back in Washington, briefly interrupting their August recess to forge ahead with President Biden's economic agenda, including a massive infrastructure package. And it's proving to be a political game of chicken between moderate and progressive Democrats in the House.
So far, the moderates appear to be winning. Nine of them are in a standoff with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-
CBN
Jul 16 2020
News
Baseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online
CHICAGO (AP) — The baseless conspiracy theory took off after an anonymous user posed a bizarre question in an internet chatroom: What if retail giant Wayfair is using pricey storage cabinets to traffic children?
Self-proclaimed internet sleuths quickly responded by matching up the names of Wayfair products to those of missing children, producing social media posts that have since
Associated Press
Feb 04 2022
Analysis
It’s harder than ever to get fired or laid off
One more sign that American workers are in a uniquely powerful position these days: Layoffs and discharges are at record lows.
In December, just 0.8 percent of all US employees were let go, a record according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data that goes back more than two decades. The low rate of layoffs is yet another indicator that workers have a unique amount of power right now. How
Vox
Jun 19 2020
Analysis
The Perils of Data-Driven Politics
Numbers reveal a lot, but they do not contain the whole truth.
Data analysis was back in fashion again this spring, with a nation hanging on the shape of infection curves and the reliability of predictive mathematical models. Then, it was back out of fashion, as the lockdowns of March gave way to the primal street violence of May. Both experiences should humble our view of the power of
National Review (News)
Mar 13 2021
Opinion
The Biggest Thing Kamala Harris Could Do This Year
The battle to protect voting rights needs a field general. Vice President Kamala Harris needs a cause to define her tenure. The second problem suggests the answer to the first: President Joe Biden could designate Harris as the administration’s point person in combatting the onslaught against voter access now advancing in Republican-controlled states.
The Atlantic
Oct 04 2014
News
How fear and mistrust in West Africa makes Ebola spread faster
Understanding local beliefs and customs is an essential part of any disaster relief effort, and anthropologists have been dispatched to West Africa to study the interplay between the disease and human culture in the Ebola epidemic.
Vox spoke to Almudena Mari Saez, an anthropologist who has been working in Guinea, following hunters to figure out how the virus works its way into humans
Vox