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Dec 29 2020
Perspectives Blog
When Cracks Appear in the Republican Wall
You know it’s hard out here for an optimist.
We can see that the outgoing president will continue to indulge his penchant for brinkmanship and disruption until noon on Jan. 20, and that the consequences of his behavior will create all sorts of obstacles to his successor and inflict all sorts of hardship on suffering Americans. We can see that the COVID-19 coronavirus will wreak post-
Dan Schnur
Oct 16 2014
News
What Is Really Tearing America Apart
What separates Americans the most?
Race ... religion ... gender ...
According to Shanto Iyengar, a political scientist at Stanford University, often the most divisive aspect of contemporary society is: politics.
NPR (Online News)
Aug 04 2014
News
Poll: Only 3% of voters think Congress is very productive
Democrats are fond of labeling the 113th Congress "the least productive Congress in modern history."
And according to a new poll, a strong majority Americans agree with them.
Nearly three-fourths (74%) of registered voters said Congress has been "very unproductive" or "somewhat unproductive" this year, according to a poll released Sunday by NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist
CNN (Online News)
Sep 08 2020
Fact Check
Were 20,000 Fake IDs Seized at Chicago Airport Part of a Voter-Fraud Scheme?
As the coronavirus pandemic struck the U.S. in spring 2020, states planned to expand voting by mail ahead of the November presidential election as a safer alternative to in-person polling places. Right-wing media and groups have continued to highlight alleged instances of voter fraud in numerous forms over the last few years, and regardless of the veracity behind their claims, this time was no
Snopes
May 14 2015
News
Political Trash Talk's Toll
"If a producer can find someone who eggs on conservative listeners to spout off and prods liberals into shouting back, he's got a show," Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor, declared a few years ago. "The best host is the guy or gal who can get the most listeners extremely annoyed over and over and over again."
Examples of incivility in political discourse, which has spread to
HuffPost
Dec 14 2020
News
US administers first COVID-19 vaccine to front-line workers
The first COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in the United States was administered to a front-line worker in Queens, New York, on Monday morning.
The vaccine, which was produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, was shipped across the country over the weekend after the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization for the vaccine on Friday. The Pfizer vaccine is the fastest
Washington Examiner
Oct 24 2019
News
NYU Newspaper Pulls Ad for Lowry’s Nationalism Book Out of Concern It Might ‘Marginalize People of Color’
The editor of New York University’s independent student-run newspaper, Washington Square News, pulled an advertisement for National Review editor Rich Lowry’s upcoming book from the paper because exposure to the ad may have “marginalized people of color,” according to a statement released Thursday.
Lowry purchased the ad in order to promote a talk he will deliver Thursday night at NYU
National Review (News)
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
Jan 30 2015
News
Most Americans Support Government Action on Climate Change, Poll Finds
An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future.
New York Times (News)
Oct 23 2019
News
Harvard paper forced to defend allowing ICE fair comment after student backlash
The principal student newspaper at Harvard University is being forced by student activists to defend the standard journalistic practice of asking subjects of stories for comment.
The Crimson, according to a “Note to Readers” published Tuesday, was publicly condemned by the group Act on a Dream and 10 other student groups for seeking comment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a
Washington Times