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Sep 18 2020
News
Should we trust 2020 election polls?
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
In the 2016 election, inaccurate polls in Midwestern swing states caused many to underestimate Donald Trump's probability of winning the election.Adding to the complexity, many national surveys reflected Abridge News
May 20 2019
Opinion
The Big Story You Don’t Read About
My colleague David Bornstein points out that a lot of American journalism is based on a mistaken theory of change. That theory is: The world will get better when we show where things have gone wrong. A lot of what we do in our business is expose error, cover problems and identify conflict.
The problem with this is that we leave people feeling disempowered and depressed. People who
David Brooks
Mar 18 2021
News
Recall or science? Newsom's sudden reopening push has many wondering
California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the past year as one of the nation's most restrictive pandemic governors. Now, he’s throwing the doors open.
Facing a recall threat, Newsom this month announced the return of outdoor concerts and Major League Baseball games, allowed Disneyland to open its gates soon and signed legislation that attempts to reopen schools.
The Democratic governor
Politico
Jul 14 2020
Analysis
Monday Was A Big Day For Democrats, But You Probably Missed It
Monday was the first day of the Democratic National Convention. You might be forgiven for not knowing that, as the news was nowhere. Not in the papers, not on the shows, and not in the morning news letters most of Washington relies on for what to think that day.
The long-planned dates — July 13-17 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — were first moved to Aug. 17-20, then cancelled and turned into
The Federalist
Mar 13 2020
News
CNN's Andrew Gillum found 'inebriated' in Miami Beach hotel room; cops recover meth
CNN contributor and former Democratic candidate for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum, was found "inebriated" early Friday morning in a hotel where meth was also recovered, according to a Miami Beach, Fla., police report.
Gillum, 40, was in the room at the Mondrian Hotel in South Beach with two other men when police arrived shortly after midnight, according to the report obtained by Fox
Fox News Digital
Jun 04 2020
News
Lawmakers, tech companies struggle to curb coronavirus disinformation
While public health and government officials scramble to contain the spread of COVID-19 around the United States, some lawmakers are seeking to address another scourge: online disinformation about the virus that could pose health risks and sow division among Americans.
False information about the virus has spread quickly across the internet in recent months, taking the form of
Roll Call
Jun 19 2017
News
Jay Sekulow’s bizarre debut: Donald Trump picked a lawyer he saw on Fox News and it isn’t going well
Last week, the Washington Post dropped one of the biggest bombshells of the Russia scandal to date when it published a story with five different sources saying that that special counsel Robert Mueller was looking into President Donald Trump’s actions with respect to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Salon
Nov 05 2020
Analysis
Democrats’ increasingly narrow path for winning back the Senate, explained
Democrats came into the 2020 Senate elections as slight favorites. But Republicans have had a strong showing.
Democrats entered Election Day with high hopes of retaking the Senate and winning full control of Washington if former Vice President Joe Biden beats President Donald Trump in the race for the presidency.
But by Wednesday, the election results made clear those hopes were
Vox
Nov 12 2019
News
Divided Supreme Court leans toward allowing Trump to end DACA
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sharply divided over President Trump's move to end Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, as the justices heard oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of the term.
Members of the court’s conservative wing appeared wary of allowing court to review the administration’s decision to begin
The Hill
Sep 24 2020
News
McEnany Turns Tables on Reporters and Dems Who Claim Trump Won't Agree to Peaceful Transfer of Power
There are questions now about whether President Trump will step aside in a peaceful transition of power if he loses or if he'll go down swinging.
Top Republicans have pushed back after the President suggested he might not accept the election results if Democrat Joe Biden prevails in November.
During a news conference Wednesday, President Trump refused to confirm a peaceful
CBN