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Jul 22 2019
Opinion
OPINION: How to Alienate Voters and Lose Elections
The Democrats are determined to repeat the mistakes of 2016.
The Democrats have spent well over two years asking themselves what they did wrong in the last presidential election and how to avoid those mistakes in 2020. But they seem to suffer from a collective learning disability that prevents them from absorbing the obvious: Their party will lose again if they continue to insult the
Guest Writer - RightNov 04 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: News Outlets and Political Endorsement
Editorial boards from major news outlets nationwide are sticking with tradition and endorsing presidential candidates in the 2020 election. According to the American Presidency Project, President Donald Trump received endorsement from seven major news outlets, including the New York Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Boston Herald. More than 45 news outlets expressed support for
Poynter Pittsburgh Post-Gazette New York Times (Opinion)Apr 18 2019
News
Pete Buttigieg’s National Service Plan Is a Really Bad Idea Whose Time Might Have Come
Mayor Pete pitches a vague policy as a cure to help fix "the lack of social cohesion" that he says defines contemporary America.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told Rachel Maddow recently that "national service will become one of the themes of [my] 2020 campaign." As the MSNBC clip below makes clear, the defining element of the plan put forward by the Afghanistan War
Guest Writer - RightJul 10 2019
News
Fact Check: Actually, the Trump Economy is Benefitting the Very People Democrats Claim It Isn't
One of the trickier bits of political positioning facing Democrats this cycle is how to talk about the American economy. By nearly every metric, it's performing quite well. Unemployment is low, growth is pretty strong, wages are rising, the stock market is up -- and we're in the midst of the longest overall US economic expansion in recorded history. Roughly 70 percent of voters are
TownhallNov 18 2019
News
Would a Wealth Tax Work?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have called for a wealth tax on ultra-wealthy Americans.According to their campaign websites, Warren's "Ultra-Millionaire Tax Abridge NewsApr 29 2024
Headline Roundup
Will Biden and Trump Debate?
Will Biden and Trump debate?
Key Details: During an interview with Howard Stern on Friday, President Joe Biden indicated that he is willing to debate former President Donald Trump ahead of the election in November. Stern suggested that, during the debate, Biden should bring up the subject of Trump's phone call to Georgia's secretary of state, asking him to find 11,000 votes so he could
Wall Street Journal (Opinion) The Hill MSNBCMay 26 2020
Perspectives Blog
Are Masks — and Germs — The Newest Political Weapons?
This year, Memorial Day was a metaphor. When Donald Trump and Joe Biden both went to pay their respects to the nation’s war dead on Monday (separate ceremonies, of course), Biden wore a mask and Trump did not. Their respective decisions reflected the growing and increasingly nasty debate as to how we should conduct ourselves during a pandemic, and demonstrated that germs, infection and disease
Dan SchnurApr 03 2019
News
Biden's Behavior Under Scrutiny
“On Friday, former Nevada assemblywoman Lucy Flores recalled a 2014 campaign event where Biden approached her from behind, smelled her hair and kissed her head… [Since then] a second woman has come forward, claiming former Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a political event. Former congressional aide Amy Lappos told the Hartford Courant that Biden reached for her face and
The Flip SideJan 14 2016
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Polarization and the SOTU
In the State of the Union (SOTU) this week, President Obama expressed personal regret over the polarized state of Washington, and he put forth some ideas of how the nation can reverse this trend. On the same day, a Real Clear Politics story came out entitled Census 2015 Shows Increasing Cultural Division and Political Polarization. The article reports, “…the tendency is continuing for Americans John Gable, AllSides Co-founderApr 01 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Replacing Obamacare Is Still a Republican Duty
President Trump has tasked three Republican senators with coming up with a replacement for Obamacare if courts strike it down. It’s a prudent contingency plan. Republicans should, for that matter, advance their own health-care plan even if the lawsuit fails — as it is highly likely to do, in part because it lacks legal merit.
Republican senators are not notably eager to take up this
Guest Writer - Right