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Apr 15 2020
News
Crossover lessons: Earth Day and the pandemic
COVID-19 poses issues of living in harmony with nature that apply to climate change. Both problems require harmonious action.
It’s been a half-century since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. In a less unusual year, that 50th anniversary might have brought worldwide notice. But a pandemic has consumed most public attention. Yet the environmental issues that Earth Day highlights are
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 19 2020
News
Election anxiety: Democrat or Republican, Americans are feeling it
The direction of American democracy is riding on this election, and voters are dealing with the high anxiety of high-stakes variables that go beyond whom and what to vote for.
Like millions of other Americans, Michelle Deininger has found herself deeply frazzled about the presidential election this November.
A stay-at-home mother and self-described RINO, or “Republican in name
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 09 2015
News
Tsarnaev Mom: Americans Are ‘Terrorists’
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s mother, Zubeidat, has reportedly posted a statement online declaring Americans “the terrorists here” and calling her son “the best of the best.” In a message sent to a family friend on Russian social media site VKontakte, Zubeidat Tsarnaev wrote, “I will never forget it. May god bless those who helped my son. The terrorists here are the
Daily Beast
Oct 22 2012
News
Lebanese intelligence chief aware of threat before death
A top Lebanese intelligence official was on his way to discuss a recent threat allegedly linked to Syria when he was assassinated last week, a lawmaker told CNN on Monday. A car bomb killed Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and two others Friday, 30 minutes before he was to meet with Lebanese lawmaker Amar Houri to discuss a threatening text message sent to the lawmaker from a Syrian phone number,
CNN (Online News)
Sep 12 2022
Headline Roundup
Biden Announces Next Steps in ‘Cancer Moonshot’ Initiative
President Joe Biden touted prior advancements and announced new steps in his “Cancer Moonshot” initiative during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biden announced multiple new actions, including naming Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the first director of the newly-created Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) and signing an executive
ABC News (Online)
Washington Times 
STAT
Jan 31 2015
News
Jeb Bush Smoked Marijuana And Was A Bully In High School, Say Former Classmates
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush smoked marijuana while in high school, a personal use of the drug that stands in contrast to his later political stance on the plant.
“I drank alcohol and I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover,” Bush, the current Republican frontrunner seeking his party's 2016 presidential nomination, told the Boston Globe as part of a detailed new profile that describes
HuffPost
Jun 16 2016
Opinion
Orlando and guns: Stephen Colbert just showed Congress how to get along
Gun control is always a polarizing subject, and especially after an event like the Orlando shootings. But constructive conversation is possible. Stephen Colbert just showed how.
Traveling years after 9/11, I noticed a distinction between how United States and Israel airport security worked. The US was focused on stopping the bomb, Israel was focused on stopping the bomber.
That
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Jul 22 2023
Headline Roundup
Blockbuster ‘Barbenheimer’ Weekend Draws Droves to Theaters
In what has been dubbed “Barbenheimer,” blockbuster movies Barbie and Oppenheimer hit theaters on Friday, resulting in a pop culture frenzy and widespread media coverage.
For Context: Barbie, is a live-action film with feminist themes, framed through the popular children’s toy doll. Oppenheimer chronicles the American creation of the atomic bomb.
Barbenheimer, In That Order: An
The Federalist
Wired
The Guardian
Apr 15 2019
News
One Republican’s Answer to the Green New Deal
Lamar Alexander’s plan on climate change seeks to find the considerable common ground he sees on a problem Trump belittles.
Let’s say you’re a Republican who believes that climate change is a real problem, and that human activity is contributing to it. But you also believe the Democrats’ Green New Deal is a wildly unrealistic and politically untenable way to deal with the problem. What
Wall Street Journal (News)