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Nov 11 2020
News
For Veterans Day, Some Former Military Officers Reflect on Lessons From Their Parents
The values that shaped them include leadership, optimism and charting your own course.
Debra Weiner is interviewing 100 newsmakers, thought leaders and other people who’ve made an outsize difference about the most valuable thing their parents taught them. Following are excerpts from a few of those stories, edited and condensed.
Leadership: JIM DUBIK, retired U.S. Army lieutenant
New York Times (News)
Oct 08 2019
Opinion
Trump ignores his own warning in Syria
Can anyone make sense of President Donald Trump's Syria policy, other than Donald Trump?
Not much will bring senior Republicans to push back against Trump, but his decision to pull American forces out of Syria has drawn condemnation from three grandees of the GOP: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
And for good
CNN (Opinion)
Apr 15 2020
Opinion
The New York Times Knows Nobody Believes It about Biden, Kavanaugh, and Sexual Assault
An editor tries to explain away the newspaper’s grossly unequal coverage of sexual-assault allegations.
Aremarkable thing happened Monday: The New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, actually had to answer questions about his paper’s very different coverage of sexual-assault allegations against Joe Biden and Brett Kavanaugh. It did not go well. It is simply impossible to read the
National Review (News)
Mar 11 2020
Analysis
‘Trump’s Chernobyl’: Media Wuhan Virus Hysteria Stokes Public Panic
Since the coronavirus came on the horizon, media figures have been stoking panic, leading to mass shortages of basic health supplies, business travel cancellations, and market drops, all while the confirmed disease number hiked yesterday to around 0.000002 percent of the U.S. population.
So far, U.S. cases of the basic seasonal flu outnumber coronavirus cases by a factor of 45,000 (
The Federalist
Jul 25 2019
News
The Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Federal Executions After 16 Years
The Trump administration plans to resume federal executions, reversing a 16-year de facto moratorium on the death penalty within the Department of Justice.
Attorney General William Barr instructed the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Thursday to schedule executions of five death-row inmates, who he said were convicted of “murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most
Vice
Mar 03 2017
News
Homeland Security Still Doesn’t Think Donald Trump’s Immigration Order Will Work
A second internal Department of Homeland Security report questions the validity of President Donald Trump’s thwarted efforts to bar citizens of predominately-Muslim countries from entering the United States.
HuffPost
Sep 16 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: The Impact Of Biden's Vaccine Mandates
President Joe Biden announced sweeping vaccine mandates at the end of last week that will impact up to 100 million Americans. Biden said that private companies with 100 or more employees must vaccinate all workers against COVID-19 or test them for COVID-19 each week; he's also requiring all federal employees to get the shot with no alternative option for weekly testing. Roughly 55% of
AllSides Staff
Feb 07 2020
News
Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has bought access to a commercial database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones in America and is using it for immigration and border enforcement, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The location data is drawn from ordinary cellphone apps, including those for games, weather and e
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 29 2020
News
Twitter Conceals Trump and White House’s Threats to Minneapolis Protesters for ‘Glorifying Violence’
Twitter hid a tweet from President Trump early Friday that the social media site said broke its rules on “glorifying violence,” then concealed the same tweet again when it was later reposted from the official White House account.
The tweets in question directly threatened demonstrators after a chaotic third day of protests against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Demonstrators
Daily Beast
Oct 10 2021
Headline Roundup
Taiwan President Stands Up To China, Says Country Won’t ‘Bow To Pressure’
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-we said Sunday during the country's National Day celebrations that she would not “bow to pressure” from China.“We will do our utmost to prevent the status quo from being unilaterally altered,” Ing-wen said. The Taiwanese leader also pledged to continue bolstering the island’s military defenses as well as resisting “the path China has laid out for us.” Her comments
CNN (Online News)
Associated Press
The Daily Wire