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Apr 01 2020
News
Coronavirus drives competing global ‘playbooks’
Democratic and more authoritarian governments have adopted many similar measures to address COVID-19. But it’s worth watching for where they diverge – including steps toward tighter controls on dissent and support for coordinated international response.
For hundreds of millions of us across the globe, much of life as we’ve known it is now on hold. Not so, however, politics. Or
Christian Science MonitorJun 25 2020
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Scientists claim deep-sea mining could forever harm 'pristine' ocean ecosystems
Mining the deep seabed could cause irreversible damage to ocean ecosystems, a group of international scientists say, raising questions as to whether the seafloor’s wealth of critical minerals is worth the risk.
The potential harms they outline are only the ones researchers know about today. In fact, the world has explored very little of the deep seas, leaving a knowledge gap seemingly
Washington ExaminerAug 05 2020
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Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30 billion
Microsoft plans to finish its acquisition talks with TikTok within the next three weeks, ahead of the Sept. 15 deadline, CNBC’s David Faber reported Wednesday. The deal could be worth up to $30 billion.
If the deal goes through, Microsoft has already agreed with the U.S. government to bring TikTok’s code from China to the U.S. within one year. Faber also reported that the two sides
CNBCNov 17 2014
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Obama: We didn't deceive anyone to pass Obamacare
President Obama denied an accusation on Sunday that he had misled voters about his signature health care law in order to get it passed in 2010. "We had a yearlong debate. I mean, go back and look at your stories," Obama told reporters at the G20 summit in Australia Sunday. "The one thing we can't say is that, 'we did not have a lengthy debate about health care in the United states of America'
CNN (Online News)Jan 20 2020
Background
America leads other countries in deepening polarization
America’s widening political divide stands out above other nations, according to a new cross-country polarization study by Stanford economists.
Over the past four decades, the chilly chasm of negative sentiment between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. has nearly doubled, and it has grown faster and larger compared to the partisan climates of eight other established democracies
Stanford NewsMay 29 2012
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US expels top Syrian diplomat from Washington, joins other nations in protest of killings
The U.S. State Department is kicking out Syria's top diplomat to Washington, joining several other countries in expelling Syrian officials in a bid to increase pressure on leader Bashar Assad following Friday's massacre of civilians. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday that the U.S. government has given Syria's charge d'affaires 72 hours to leave the country. "In response
Fox News (Online News)Feb 28 2020
News
Stocks Fall Again, Face Biggest Weekly Losses Since 2008
A market storm gathered pace Friday as stock markets around the world sold off and investors struggled to calculate the economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic.
The S&P 500 fell 1.8%, a day after the biggest percentage drop in U.S. markets since August 2011. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 466 points, or 2%, putting it about 14% below its Feb. 12 record close. The
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 14 2020
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Trump says he may stop allowing top officials to listen to his calls with foreign leaders
President Trump says he's considering ending the standard protocol of having top administration officials listen to his calls with foreign leaders, following his conversation with Ukraine's president, a call that culminated in his impeachment. Mr. Trump floated the possibility in an interview with Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera asked the president why so many people are allowed to listen to his
CBS News (Online)Feb 02 2020
Analysis
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders is the Democratic front runner
Bernie Sanders, at seventy-eight, three months clear of a heart attack, has outlived obscurity to become the co-front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. He is still thin and intent; to my eye, the hunch in his back has deepened. On a tour of Iowa last weekend, he wore a suit with an open-necked shirt, and his hair was on the tame side of its range.
The New YorkerAug 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)