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Jan 21 2020
News
NPR Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Trump Encourages Election Interference
Weeks before the first votes of the 2020 presidential election, Americans report a high level of concern about how secure that election will be and worry about the perils of disinformation, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.
Forty-one percent of those surveyed said they believed the U.S. is not very prepared or not prepared at all to keep November's election safe and
NPR (Online News)
Jul 03 2020
News
As the coronavirus spread, two social media communities drifted apart
On Feb. 11, 2020, the World Health Organization put a name to the mysterious respiratory disease spreading with alarming speed around the globe: COVID-19.
Around the same time, two of the internet's most popular communities for discussing this unfolding crisis began to drift apart—with one increasingly embracing racist language and conspiracy theories, while the other tended to avoid
Tech Xplore
Jul 14 2021
Opinion
Republicans, Democrats and the Vaccine
More Republicans than Democrats appear to be "vaccine hesitant" -- that is, reluctant for one reason or another -- to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They've gotten the treatment you might expect in some quarters of the press. "Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We'll all pay the price," read one headline in The Washington Post. In The New York Times, there was, "Far-Right Extremists
Townhall
Jul 02 2020
News
Biden Wants to Desegregate the Suburbs. Naturally, Trump Is Furious.
During the 2020 Democratic primary, housing policy played a far more prominent role than in any presidential contest in recent memory, as candidates released aggressive plans to combat rising costs, exclusionary zoning, and a wave of evictions. But the issue seemed destined to be relegated to the margins in the general election, amid more politically potent crises like the pandemic, police
Mother Jones
Aug 13 2020
News
Big Airlines are Hoarding Cash to Survive the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has cratered demand for air travel, tens of thousands of people are already out of work, and a recovery — whatever that may look like — is expected to take years. But while smaller suppliers are crashing and burning, the biggest corporations that operate and orchestrate the air travel industry are surviving, thanks to their size and their access to a crucial resource:
The Verge
Apr 04 2019
News
Trump, Republicans Decide Not to Touch Affordable Care Act Without Replacement Plan
Republican lawmakers are breathing a sigh of relief that the Trump administration backed away from seeking an immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement plan, and instead will take the issue on the 2020 campaign trail.
"I was disappointed when we were talking about repeal only without a credible plan to replace," Indiana Sen. Mike Braun (R) told CBN News. "We
CBN
May 14 2020
Analysis
Ousted whistleblower warns US is heading toward “darkest winter in modern history”
Dr. Rick Bright, previously the director of a US research agency working on a coronavirus vaccine, testified Thursday morning to a House subcommittee that “without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.”
Bright warned lawmakers in his testimony before the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the US needs to take “simple but
Vox
Apr 14 2021
Analysis
Seeing White Supremacy Everywhere
Back in the olden times, on the long-forgotten show Saturday Night Live, which I presume was canceled decades ago — no, I won’t check — comedian Dana Carvey had a recurring character, the Church Lady. The character, an uptight talk-show host and moral busybody, was hilarious, in part because she projected her consuming and lascivious obsessions with sin and lust on her guests. “Some of us do
National Review (News)
Nov 07 2019
News
Disinformation still running rampant on Facebook, study says
Most of the attention on Facebook and disinformation in the past week or so has focused on the platform’s decision not to fact-check political advertising, along with the choice of right-wing site Breitbart News as one of the “trusted sources” for Facebook’s News tab. But these two developments are just part of the much larger story about Facebook’s role in distributing disinformation of all
Columbia Journalism Review
Mar 19 2020
News
Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden
Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will suspend her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden.
The state of play: While she was one of the final three candidates left in the race, alongside Biden and Bernie Sanders, the Hawaii congresswoman failed to gain traction in any primary and hadn't qualified for a debate since last year.
She did pick up two
Axios