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Dec 28 2020
Analysis
Here Is What's In The COVID-19 Relief Package
President Trump has signed a major legislative package that includes coronavirus relief and government spending for the next fiscal year.
Just after Congress passed the bill last week — and shortly before Christmas — the president called the measure a "disgrace," in part for not having high enough direct payments to Americans, a move his own party had been against.
Nevertheless,
NPR (Online News)
Jul 28 2021
Opinion
The Void That Critical Race Theory Was Created to Fill
In 1971, Derrick Bell, a forty-year-old civil-rights attorney, became the first Black professor to gain tenure at Harvard Law School. A soft-spoken and prolific scholar, with glasses and a short fro coming to a widow’s peak, Bell was a Pittsburgh native and Air Force veteran who, before his career in academia, had worked with Thurgood Marshall composing legal strategies against school
The New Yorker
Jan 20 2021
Opinion
Fox News after the Fox News Presidency
Fox News spent the last four years remaking itself as President Donald Trump’s personal propaganda tool. Until the very end, it was a remarkably effective strategy: The network’s audience swelled to record heights while its hosts achieved unprecedented influence as personal advisers to the Fox-obsessed president. But Trump’s reelection defeat -- and his subsequent turn against Fox for
Media Matters
Feb 10 2020
Analysis
With all the votes counted, Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucuses — but Bernie Sanders is challenging
The Iowa Democratic Party is done delivering results, but Bernie Sanders won the popular vote and is calling for a recanvass.
Pete Buttigieg appears to be, at the final count, the winner of the 2020 Iowa caucuses.
But the story isn’t quite over yet. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign has said it will ask the Iowa Democratic Party to recanvass some of the vote.
Regardless,
Vox
Feb 07 2013
Opinion
Do Republicans Stand a Chance on Immigration Reform?
After its failure to defeat a vulnerable President Obama and to retake the Senate in the 2012 elections, leading Republicans and conservative thinkers have conducted a searching critique of their Party.
Brookings Institution
Nov 02 2021
Perspectives Blog
Studying Political Science Motivates College Students to Vote, New Research Shows
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Frank Fernandez and Matthew J Capaldi from the University of Florida. The writers' biases have not been rated.
The big ideaCommunity college students who take political science classes are more likely to register to vote, turn out to vote and understand
"The Conversation" Contributor
Jul 28 2021
News
Hundreds of communities declared racism a public health crisis. What's happened since?
Last year, dozens of communities rushed to declare racism a public health crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests against police brutality, both of which disproportionately affect people of color.
More than 200 cities, counties, local governments, public health and educational entities made such declarations since 2020, according to the American Public Health
USA TODAY
Apr 30 2019
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Red Blue Dictionary Now Available on Credo Reference
AllSides created the Red Blue Dictionary to reveal how people from across the political spectrum define, think or feel differently about the same term or issue. Today, we’re excited to announce that the AllSides Red Blue Dictionary will reach even more users through our new partnership with Credo Reference!
Have you ever had a political discussion where you realized you and your
Julie Mastrine
May 28 2013
News
ACLU Fights School District Plan to Teach Controversial Issues
The American Civil Liberties Union is battling an Ohio school districts controversial issues policy that would mandate classroom discussions about creationism and other conservative issues.
The Blaze
Feb 04 2021
News
Scientists want to know if vaccinated people can still become COVID-19 long-haulers
Data from multiple COVID-19 vaccines makes it clear that the shots protect against the most severe outcomes of the disease: hospitalization and death. But it’s still unclear how well the vaccines will reduce the risk of chronic, long-term symptoms, which a small but significant number of COVID-19 patients experience.
“It’s an incredibly important question that we just don’t know the
The Verge