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Mar 06 2020
News
Democratic, Republican voters actually agree on ways to juice the economy. What's in the way? Politics.
Most Democratic and Republican voters agree on a wide range of proposals to boost the economy, from upgrading infrastructure to reducing college costs, casting doubt on the conventional belief that pocketbook issues are hopelessly dividing voters in the 2020 election.
A Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos survey reveals that Americans agree far more than they disagree on ways to make it
USA TODAYFeb 19 2021
News
How countries amplify COVID disinformation
China, Russia and Iran — drawing on one another’s online disinformation — amplified false theories that the COVID-19 virus originated in a U.S. bioweapons lab or was designed by Washington to weaken their countries, according to a nine-month investigation by AP and the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab.
Why it matters: Through a series of overlapping, if slapdash, efforts, America's global
AxiosAuthor
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
John Gable is co-founder and CEO of AllSides. He often writes about bias, news media, polarization, and how technology impacts these things, or offers a perspective generally overlooked about controversial topics.
Aug 08 2020
Background
Is Political Polarization Affecting the Nonprofit Sector?
In many ways, America’s population has grown more polarized along racial, economic, and political lines. Americans are more likely to live near others from the same socioeconomic background and those who share their political beliefs.
But we know little about how this divide has affected the nonprofit sector. Few studies have looked at the geographic distribution of nonprofit missions
Urban InstituteSep 20 2021
Fact Check
’A Fetus at 6 Weeks Has No More Brain Than a Grain of Rice’
A viral Facebook post claims that “A fetus at 6 weeks has no more brain than a grain of rice.” The post references the Texas heartbeat abortion law, which prohibits abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at six weeks.
The first claim in the post—that a baby during the sixth week of gestation is the size of a grain of rice—is accurate. Gestational calendars use the
The Dispatch Fact CheckApr 13 2021
News
Biden set to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered America’s longest war, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The disclosure of the plan came on the same day that the U.S. intelligence community released a gloomy outlook for Afghanistan, forecasting “low” chances of a peace deal
ReutersJun 10 2021
Fact Check
Did Fauci Send an Email Touting Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID Treatment?
An Instagram post from popular QAnon account JOKAQARMY claims that on March 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “sent an attachment titled 'HCQ, A Modest Proposal for Mitigating COVID-19 2.0.pdf.”
HCQ is a common abbreviation for hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to combat malaria that was controversially heralded as a
The DispatchAug 24 2012
News
Who is the next Obama?
It was his breakout moment on the national political stage. "(T)here's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America," a little-known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama declared as he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. "There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America;
CNN (Online News)Mar 26 2021
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How pandemic snarls redistricting – and 2022 election plans
Census delays are creating hurdles this year for steps that are basic democracy: drawing new political maps, vetting their fairness in courts, and giving potential candidates time to mobilize for the next election.
Just once a decade America’s political boundary lines get redrawn – and this year there’s an extra plot twist.
The problem: The pandemic happened to coincide almost
Christian Science MonitorJan 07 2021
News
Trump decries 'heinous' attack on Capitol, calls for 'healing and reconciliation'
President Trump said Thursday night he is “outraged” by his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol, and called for “healing and reconciliation” as he prepares to relinquish power to President-elect Joseph R. Biden.
In his first comments on the Capitol attack and on Congress certifying Mr. Biden’s victory, Mr. Trump said serving as president “has been the honor of my lifetime.”
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Washington Times