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Apr 12 2019
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Julian Assange Arrested in London: Justice or a Violation of the Free Press?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Media outlets, pundits, and politicians across the aisle are split: Some say that Assange must be punished for exposing classified information, while others say that his arrest poses a problem for freedom of the press and civil liberties. Check out some other big stories AllSides Staff
Nov 08 2020
Analysis
Trump's stalling legal strategy
The Trump campaign legal team is throwing everything at the wall in battleground states — a last-ditch effort to use the courts to freeze time in states where President Trump was ahead (but keep counting in key places where he appeared behind).
Why it matters: None of the legal actions was poised to change the outcome, but the effort could delegitimize the 2020 election in the eyes of
Axios
Nov 07 2020
Analysis
What a Joe Biden presidency means for taxes, health care, housing, student debt — and another COVID-19 stimulus package
Joe Biden was projected Saturday to become the nation’s next president, according to the Associated Press, after campaigning on an ambitious domestic agenda he hopes will improve voters’ finances and invigorate an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tax hikes for the rich, broadened health care coverage and student loan forgiveness were some of the projects on candidate Biden’
MarketWatch
Jan 16 2021
News
Biden plans 'roughly a dozen' Day One executive actions: aide
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will cap a busy day of inauguration pageantry by using the powers of his new office to push policy changes on housing, student loans, climate change and immigration, a top aide said on Saturday.
Biden, who campaigned on a raft of promises to undo President Donald Trump’s legacy even before the novel coronavirus pandemic walloped the nation, will unveil “
Reuters
Dec 26 2019
News
2020 Democrats are naming their fund-raising 'bundlers’ amid a fight over big money in politics
When it comes to political fund-raising, rich people are great. People who know a lot of rich people are even better.
Individual donors may write the checks, but a lot of influence and power accrues to the intermediaries who collect the money. Known as “bundlers,” they are the financial backbone of many modern campaigns.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jun 11 2020
News
Attendees of Trump’s upcoming Tulsa rally must sign coronavirus disclaimer
Supporters attending President Trump’s Oklahoma campaign rally next week — the first since the coronavirus pandemic — must first sign a disclaimer bearing all responsibility if they catch the illness.
The disclaimer appears at the bottom of the registration page for the rally next Friday night at the BOK Center in Tulsa.
“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an
New York Post (News)
Jun 07 2020
News
What does social media activism accomplish?
As protesters continued to pour into America’s streets over the killing of George Floyd, images of black squares flooded social media on Tuesday in an effort to show support for antiracism and to protest against police brutality. The squares, part of a campaign called “Blackout Tuesday,” snowballed across social media feeds, but they also drowned out previous posts intended to organize in-
Yahoo! The 360
Feb 03 2019
News
‘Unforgivable!’: Donald Trump Slams Gov. Ralph Northam Over Racist Photo
Trump also said Northam would have lost Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial race had the photo surfaced during the campaign.
HuffPost
Jan 31 2019
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Government Shutdown Ends as Border Wall Negotiations Continue
The longest government shutdown in history came to a close last Friday as President Trump agreed to sign a temporary spending bill while border wall negotiations continue. Some say that Trump lost the fight by caving to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who would not agree to allot $5.7 billion for a wall at the southern border, while others say that Democrats have revealed themselves to be AllSides Staff
Aug 31 2020
Fact Check
No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ US coronavirus deaths
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump shared two posts that falsely claimed COVID-19 deaths are not as high as previously thought.
The posts claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 death numbers to show that only 9,210 Americans have died from the virus. Twitter removed the first tweet for violating its rules. Another post from Jenna Ellis, a
PolitiFact