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Jan 26 2021
News
One coal state senator holds the key to Biden’s ambitious climate agenda. And it’s not McConnell.
He’s a coal country native, born to a family of mining town mayors. As West Virginia governor, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency. He has scuttled efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, criticized the Paris climate agreement and famously shot a copy of a cap-and-trade carbon proposal full of lead.
Now the fate of the most ambitious climate agenda ever proposed by an
Washington PostMar 23 2020
News
Donald Trump Signals He Might Sacrifice Thousands of Americans to Restart the Economy
That didn’t take long. Donald Trump already seems to be growing tired and frustrated with doing the right thing.
After about two months of deadly delays and denials, Trump a week ago finally began pushing a public health initiative to counter the coronavirus pandemic, promoting the White House’s “15 Days to Slow the Spread” campaign, which called for social distancing, teleworking, and
Mother JonesSep 16 2020
News
Exclusive: Internal documents show officials waved red flags before Trump's Tulsa rally
Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before President Trump’s indoor rally in June, warning there could be significant spikes of coronavirus cases and deaths from the event, according to internal state documents.
Dozens of emails obtained by The Hill through a state freedom of information request reveal growing angst within the Oklahoma public health department in the days
The HillMay 05 2020
Analysis
Let People Go Outside
"If I get corona, I get corona," mused Florida spring breaker Brady Sluder in a now-infamous March interview with CBS. "At the end of the day, I'm not going to let it stop me from partying."
Sluder, with his sun-tinged face and backwards cap, probably didn't realize that he'd become an unwitting mascot for the perils of ignoring social distancing. Policies discouraging nearly every form
ReasonMay 08 2020
Perspectives Blog
Introducing AllSides Facts and Fact Checking
Facts are facts, but the way they’re presented (or ignored) can still be biased. Information based in fact can imply things that are misleading or even turn out to be untrue.
To better reveal the truth and reality we all seek, AllSides is launching our Facts and Fact Checking Portal. Here, we’ll curate a balanced spread of the latest fact check articles, in-depth research reports,
AllSides StaffJul 16 2020
News
Georgia Governor Bans Cities, Counties from Requiring Masks
Georgia governor Brian Kemp issued an executive order Wednesday overruling mask mandates put in place by local governments in the state to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, calling such rules “unenforceable.”
Kemp’s order, which extended the state’s COVID-19 restrictions through July 31, prohibits local municipalities from enforcing mandatory mask orders that are more restrictive than
National Review (News)Jan 17 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Chuck Schumer Turns Into Wile E. Coyote
From the CenterThe preferred cartoon analogy for a hapless and easily fooled political figure is the image of Charlie Brown preparing to kick a football before Lucy pulls the ball away at the last minute. But for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has yet again careened into a solid brick wall of solid opposition from within his own party, the better comparison might be Wile E. Coyote
Dan SchnurFeb 25 2021
News
Nursing Homes, Once Hotspots, Far Outpace U.S. in Covid Declines
Throughout the pandemic, there has been perhaps nowhere more dangerous than a nursing home. The coronavirus has raced through some 31,000 long-term care facilities in the United States, killing more than 163,000 residents and employees and accounting for more than a third of all virus deaths since the late spring.
But for the first time since the American outbreak began roughly a year
New York Times (News)Jul 15 2020
Fact Check
President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims
It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of 12 claims a day.
But on July 9, just 440 days later, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day over a 14-month period, which included the events leading up to Trump’s impeachment trial, the worldwide pandemic that crashed the economy and
Washington PostNov 03 2020
News
Americans begin casting Election Day ballots after divisive, bitter campaign
Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose either incumbent Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden as their next president, after a tumultuous four years under the businessman-turned-politician that have left the country as deeply divided as at any time in recent history.
Biden, the Democratic former vice president and a career politician, has had a strong and consistent lead in
Reuters