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Feb 21 2023
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AllSides News Briefing: February 21, 2023
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Hello! I’m AllSides Managing Editor Henry A. Brechter. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Here’s your AllSides balanced briefing for today.
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AllSides Staff
May 08 2018
News
The Liberal Media's Answer to Ideological Diversity Concerns: Ban Conservatives, Hire Socialists
Should the liberal, conservative-disdaining media be even more liberal and disdainful of conservatives? It would be hard to make a better argument for including a broader range of right-leaning perspectives at mainstream publications than this recent, tone-deaf plea from New York magazine's Eric Levitz to do just the opposite.
Reason
Nov 21 2022
Opinion
Joe Biden Becomes First Octogenarian President in American History
What happened:
President Joe Biden etched his name in the history books on Sunday by celebrating his 80th birthday and becoming America's first octogenarian president. The White House doesn't want you to know this because they're concerned about "storylines surrounding [Biden's] age."
Why it matters:
Sleepy Joe has exceeded the average male life expectancy in the United
Washington Free Beacon
Sep 19 2022
News
The 10 states with the highest average credit card debt—and they aren’t New York or California
Americans with credit card debt face a double whammy.
First, there’s inflation. Prices on a broad basket of consumer goods are up 8.3% from this time last year, a figure that includes even larger hikes in the cost of food, shelter, gasoline and medical care.
At the same time, credit card rates are on the rise. In an effort to tame inflation, the Federal Reserve has embarked on a
CNBC
Nov 21 2022
News
How Sick Is Too Sick for School? RSV, Flu and Colds Strain Parents and School Nurses
Tensions are rising between parents and school nurses over children showing up to school with coughs, colds and symptoms of viral infections.
Levels of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, influenza, and other respiratory viruses are surging early this year. The flood is straining school nurses and creating tough decisions for parents, who worry about children missing instruction and
Wall Street Journal (News)
Nov 16 2022
News
Amazon Is Next In The Onslaught Of Tech Layoffs
Amazon plans to lay off around 10,000 employees beginning as soon as this week
The online retail giant represents another in a growing chain of tech firms slashing head counts to constrain costs
CEO founder Jeff Bezos issued a recession warning the day before the announcement, suggesting headwinds are blowing in
On Monday, the New York Times NYT -1.5% reported that Amazon
Forbes
Nov 29 2022
Analysis
Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.
Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too.
But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from, and especially when the world is recovering from a massive pandemic and economic shocks that are still causing suffering around the globe.
Yet that suffering makes it all the more
Vox
Nov 11 2022
News
House Freedom Caucus ties itself in knots over challenging McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy’s fractious crew of pro-Trump conservatives is openly debating whether to back his speakership dreams as it pushes for major House rules changes.
How real of a rebellion the Freedom Caucus can muster when it has no alternative candidate yet, however, is another question entirely.
As a number of still-uncalled midterm races leave the House majority unsettled if
Politico
Sep 01 2022
News
Biden: ‘MAGA Republicans’ a clear threat to democracy
President Joe Biden addressed the country Thursday night from Philadelphia with a prime-time speech billed as the “Soul of the Nation.”
While in the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence, the president talked about what he believes to be America’s core values and how to fight for them. He also sounded an alarm, saying he sees threats to democracy, and adding that both equality
NewsNation
Nov 11 2022
Opinion
Taking aim at DeSantis, Trump goes further than he should have
The New York Times published an article that quickly made the rounds among political insiders, especially in the Republican Party. Its lede was straightforward:
For months, former President Donald J. Trump has been grumbling quietly to friends and visitors to his Palm Beach mansion about a rival Republican power center in another Florida mansion, some 400 miles to the north. Gov. Ron
Steve Benen