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Aug 03 2020
Perspectives Blog
When China Wins the Next U.S. Election
In a hyper-polarized political environment like ours, it’s not often that we can identify a policy area where there is strong bipartisan agreement. But even in the middle of this scorched-earth campaign season, there is one critical issue on which Democrats and Republicans have achieved a strong degree of unity.
They agree that China is bad.
As is often the case, President Trump
Dan SchnurMay 05 2016
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Can Trump Win?
As the only GOP candidate left standing, Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee this week, which led the media to speculate in earnest on his chances of becoming our next president. We’re sharing a range of perspectives on this today. For example, we noticed that even if you look only at the Left, different sources are citing different polls. But first, with John Gable, AllSides Co-founderAug 13 2020
News
The Future of the Gig Worker
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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
The gig economy is founded on flexible and on-demand labor that is often allocated through an online platform such as Uber, TaskRabbit, and Postmates. The laborers are Abridge NewsApr 26 2019
News
Trump says ‘no money’ paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier
President Trump on Friday said “no money” was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, after reports that the U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from Pyongyang for the late American prisoner’s care.
“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else. This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or
Fox News DigitalNov 29 2020
Headline Roundup
Biden Appoints All-Women White House Press Team
Projected 2020 presidential election winner Joe Biden named his White House senior communications staff on Sunday, selecting a team of all women. Jen Psaki, who served under President Barack Obama's administration, was chosen to be his first press secretary; Psaki also oversees the confirmations team for Biden's transition team. Biden selected Kate Bedingfield as White House communications
USA TODAY Associated Press Fact Check Independent Journal ReviewApr 09 2019
News
Secret Service director is the latest casualty in DHS shake-up
A day after Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned, the director of the Secret Service is out, too.
On Monday, the White House confirmed that Randolph “Tex” Alles, whom President Donald Trump appointed as director of the Secret Service in April 2017, would be leaving his post, after multiple media outlets reported that he had been ousted. The announcement comes
VoxMar 04 2019
News
Trump Faces New Scrutiny From Panel That Would Run Impeachment
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he’s aggressively investigating whether there’s evidence of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump, thrusting the veteran New York City lawmaker into the center of a politically risky probe.
Nadler said he plans to demand documents Monday from more than 60 people and entities, including the White House, the Trump Organization and Donald Trump
BloombergJul 01 2021
Headline Roundup
Harris's Staff Dissatisfied With 'Dysfunctional' Work Environment
On Wednesday, Politico reported that aides and officials on Vice President Kamala Harris's staff were dissatisfied with their work environment, with some calling it "tense" and "dysfunctional." Much of the criticism is aimed at Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy; Flournoy reportedly restricts staff and allies' access to Harris, creating tension in the office and among outside donors and
CNBC Fox News Digital PoliticoAug 28 2020
Analysis
The Problem With the New Trump Sales Pitch Is Trump
Night Four of the RNC ended with the same old president.
Ben Mathis-Lilley: Jim, I’ve changed my mind. Let’s start this chat right now, while Trump’s speech is still going on. It’s 11:19 p.m. and there are so many words left in it, many of them—not a joke—about pioneers settling the Open Range.
Jim Newell: Good idea. It is 11:22 p.m. and our president has 300,000 words left about
SlateMay 24 2019
News
Trump gives AG Barr authority to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign surveillance
President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: "The heads of elements of the intelligence community... and the heads of each department or agency that includes an