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Mar 02 2021
News
Biden administration sanctions Russia over Navalny poisoning and arrest
The Biden administration announced new penalties on Russia on Tuesday in response to the poisoning and jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in President Joe Biden’s first major step in holding Moscow accountable for human rights abuses.
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded with high confidence that Navalny was poisoned last year with a banned nerve agent called
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Jun 30 2021
Analysis
The Trump bump has disappeared. What now for newsrooms?
Former President Donald Trump always said he was the best thing to ever happen to the media.
Now that he is gone — well, sort of gone — can we say that he was right?
Axios’ Sara Fischer and Neal Rothschild write, “In the months since former President Trump left office, news audiences have plunged — and publishers who rely on partisan warfare have taken an especially big hit.”
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Jul 20 2021
News
Post-court ruling, Democrats face pressure to deliver on immigration
Democrats are under growing pressure to pass long-stalled immigration reform after a federal judge poured new fuel onto the years-long fight by blocking new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applicants.
With bipartisan talks making little progress, Democrats are poised to use what was viewed as their back-up plan: trying to get immigration reform passed as part of a
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Think Tank / Policy Group
Capital Research Center
Capital Research Center has a Lean Right bias. Capital Research Center states its bias openly on its website, indicating a Lean Right or libertarian/conservative bias: We do have a specific point of view. We believe in free markets, Constitutional government, and individual liberty. But facts are facts, and our journalists and researchers go where the facts lead them.
Apr 23 2021
News
Climate Summit
“The United States and other countries hiked their targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions… Biden unveiled the goal to cut emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels at the start of a two-day climate summit kicked off on Earth Day and attended virtually by leaders of 40 countries including big emitters China, India and Russia.” (Reuters)
The right is critical of Biden’s pledge, arguing
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Jan 17 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Chuck Schumer Turns Into Wile E. Coyote
From the CenterThe preferred cartoon analogy for a hapless and easily fooled political figure is the image of Charlie Brown preparing to kick a football before Lucy pulls the ball away at the last minute. But for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has yet again careened into a solid brick wall of solid opposition from within his own party, the better comparison might be Wile E. Coyote
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May 05 2021
Analysis
A majority of voters see an urgent need for police reform following the Chauvin verdict
A majority of American voters think the need for police reform is even more urgent in the wake of former police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd, according to a new Vox/Data For Progress poll.
In a survey fielded in the week after his conviction, 55 percent of likely voters said they felt this way, compared to 30 percent who said they believe there was
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Aug 05 2020
Opinion
What's the Best Way To Protect Free Speech? Ken White and Greg Lukianoff Debate Cancel Culture
Even as debates over cancel culture have swept the nation, free speech defenders have disagreed about what, exactly, cancel culture is, and what it means for freedom of speech. In many ways, these disagreements represent differences of opinion about how best to protect and uphold true freedom of speech.
And what better way to deal with questions about free speech than with a debate?
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Jul 19 2020
News
Aclu Files First Amendment Challenge Against Michael Cohen’s Retaliatory Imprisonment
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union and law firm Perry Guha LLP today filed a habeas petition on behalf of Michael Cohen seeking his immediate release to home confinement. The petition argues that the federal government’s incarceration of Michael Cohen in retaliation for his plans to publish a book critical of the president prior to the November election violates the First Amendment
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Jun 03 2015
News
Thought bulk data collection was gone? Think again
The NSA is gearing up to collect millions of Americans telephone metadata -- again. Just two days after the agency shut down that program when the Patriot Act provision that authorized it expired Sunday at midnight, the Senate restored those authorities, allowing the government to reinstate bulk data collection -- for the next six months. How? By passing the USA Freedom Act, the bill
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