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Oct 21 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: The Week, USA Today Cover Republican and Democrat Purportedly Racist Comments Differently
Last week, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez resigned after audio leaked of her making comments some saw as racist. Meanwhile, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican, was also accused of racist remarks by commenters on the left when he pushed back on Democrats’ calls for reparations.
AllSides spotted media bias by spin and bias by omission in how two news outlets
Julie MastrineFeb 03 2021
Analysis
How to Deal with Marjorie Taylor Greene
No one can be surprised that a little digging has unearthed more noxious and lunatic things that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said or affirmed over the years.
The Georgia Republican mused about a space laser associated with the Rothschilds starting the 2018 California wildfires to clear the way for a high-speed rail project. She said Nancy Pelosi is a traitor who will be
National Review (News)Oct 27 2022
Perspectives Blog
2022 Midterm Elections: Latest News, Polls and Examples of Media Bias
This blog is tracking major news, updates, poll data, examples of media bias and more on the 2022 midterm elections.
Click here for a map of key races to watch and more 2022 election information and resources.
Get Live Results on the 2022 ElectionsNovember 9, 2022
Major news outlets across the spectrum are providing live results and updates on the 2022
AllSides StaffNov 05 2019
News
Is political compromise alive? Lessons from New Hampshire.
Politicians may often feel they have little choice but to appeal to the most liberal or conservative voters. Is there another way? A recent effort shows some promise, but also the challenges.
“We have a rule that’s kept us happily married,” says Chris Hagen, a Republican whose husband is a Democrat. “We live on a street corner, and we don’t allow any political signs on our lawn,” she
Christian Science MonitorMay 05 2019
News
Liberal megadonors plan $100 million swing-state blitz to beat Trump
The country’s most powerful liberal donor club is reshaping its spending on the 2020 elections, playing down longtime relationships with groups in Washington and instead preparing to pour $100 million into key states to help defeat President Donald Trump. The group, the Democracy Alliance, wants to fund everything from programs combating social media disinformation to candidate training
PoliticoJan 03 2015
News
Fighting red maps in purple states
Based on the big elections in Virginia in recent years, the Old Dominion is turning reliably blue: victories by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, two Senate wins by Democrats in two years, and Terry McAuliffe’s triumph in between. So how is it that Republicans have a stranglehold on the state’s congressional delegation, holding eight seats to Democrats’ three? Story Continued Below That question
PoliticoMay 12 2021
Opinion
A GOP Civil War? Don’t Bet On It.
If you’ve been reading the coverage lately, or listened to gloating Democrats, it’s easy to believe the Republican Party is eating itself alive.
The former Republican president literally campaigns against incumbents of his own party. NBC calls it a “GOP power struggle”; The Hill describes “deep rifts”; and the Democratic National Committee exults over “a GOP civil war.” After losing the
PoliticoOct 13 2022
Headline Roundup
What Does the LA City Council Scandal Reveal About Race and Politics?
After the Los Angeles Times (Lean Left Bias) published quotations of a leaked audio from a redistricting meeting featuring three LA city council members in which now-ex council member Nury Martinez expressed racially disparaging comments about fellow council members and the LA community, a number of pieces have been published analyzing what the controversy reveals about race relations in
NBC News Digital Reason AxiosJun 24 2021
News
Democrats working on three tracks in response to Senate voting rights defeat
There isn’t really any other way to say it: Democrats suffered one of the biggest setbacks of Joe Biden’s presidency on Tuesday.
Republicans used the filibuster, the procedural maneuver that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation in the US Senate, to block Democrats’ huge voting rights bill from advancing to a debate on the floor. No one expected it to go any differently, since
The GuardianFeb 11 2021
Analysis
American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
I. To My Mother you were born on July 9, 1964, in Greenwood, Mississippi, delivered into the cradle of white supremacy. Listening to the stories of terror and hope woven into the story of your birth used to frighten me. The year before you entered the world,
The Atlantic