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Feb 04 2021
News
Distressing animation captures a whale’s struggle to avoid ship strikes
An eye-catching animation ricocheted across Twitter this week, showing the struggles of a single blue whale as it tried to avoid crowds of shipping vessels in the Corcovado Gulf. The animation accompanied a study published in the journal Nature this week examining the overlapping paths of ships and blue whales in the waters off Chilean Patagonia.
Whales, including the one featured in
The VergeAug 01 2022
Perspectives Blog
Can Open Primaries Reduce Polarization?
This piece was originally published on Divided We Fall, which AllSides rates as mixed. It was written by Jeremy Gruber, Dan Butler, Sarah Anderson, and Laurel Harbridge- Young.
The Continued Success of our Democracy Demands Open PrimariesBy Jeremy Gruber – Senior Vice President at Open Primaries
"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
Divided We Fall (author)Oct 26 2014
News
For Midterms, Betting on Feet and Good Apps
The foot soldiers in the battle for control of the Senate come well armed. With data-infused smartphones and tablets in hand, they have an unprecedented amount of information about the potential voters they are trying to persuade and more money than ever in a midterm election to do it.
This fusion of old-school door knocking and an overlay of data analytics has been changing elections
New York Times (News)May 13 2019
News
Five big Supreme Court decisions to watch
The Supreme Court is set to go back into session on Monday to begin issuing some of its biggest decisions of the year.
From high-stakes rulings for the Trump administration to revisiting battles over the separation of church and state, here are five big decisions to watch for.
Census citizenship question
The Trump administration’s efforts to add a question about
The HillJul 01 2021
News
Pompeo Immediately Suspected Wuhan Lab, but Bureaucrats and Democrats 'Played Politics' with a Pandemic
When the coronavirus first took off, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immediately suspected the virus might have come from a Wuhan lab instead of a wet market. The medical community, Democrats, and the media wrote him off as a kook.
"They didn't accept what we said, the data set that we laid out before them because they played politics," Pompeo tells CBN News. "They had a theory of
CBNJan 21 2017
News
Trump CIA Pick Leaves Door Open to Waterboarding, More Spying on Americans
Some Democrats want to delay the confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, after Rep. Mike Pompeo left the door open to returning to harsh interrogation techniques, and collecting massive amounts of American data.
Daily BeastAug 24 2021
News
Empty Space: Office Building Prices Drop Across Major US Cities
Prices for office buildings across the United States remain low after eighteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic, including in its most expensive cities.
According to a new report from real estate data firm CommercialEdge, average sale prices dropped to $284 a square foot on office buildings in central business districts nationwide this year. This comes after prices hit a peak of $400 a
International Business TimesJul 29 2021
News
WHO’s plans for a Wuhan probe at a crossroads
IS TEDROS RECALIBRATING ON CHINA? — The World Health Organization’s planned second phase of its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus is at a crossroads — just as the WHO’s director general gears up for reelection next May.
Beijing’s rejectionof Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ call for audits of labs and research institutions in Wuhan, China was no surprise. But Tedros’ approach
PoliticoJul 29 2021
Analysis
How to make the child tax credit more accessible
Families that don’t file taxes have struggled to access the child tax credit. A more automatic program could help them out.
The first of the 2021 child tax credits hit parents’ bank accounts in July — but not for everyone. For many of the parents who need it most, accessing the money may be more of a struggle.
That’s because the IRS — an agency that knows little about the lowest-
VoxSep 09 2020
Opinion
Can 'Metajournalism' Save Old Media—and Unmask Trump?
In the 1960s and 1970s, journalists gradually began writing more like novelists, framing their investigations using literary techniques more commonly found in fiction. The premise behind this development was a simple one: if journalists could get their readers to consume more journalism by giving them a more transportive experience—something closer to a "beach read" than homework—it would
Newsweek