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Apr 30 2024
Headline Roundup
What's Behind Campus Protesters' Calls For 'Divestment' From Israel?
Student protesters on campuses across the country are calling for their schools to divest from Israel. What does this mean, and what impact would it have on the Israel-Palestine conflict?
What is Divestment? An article in the Washington Post (Lean Left bias) described the divest movement. Student protesters are calling for schools to alter their endowments, the “vast financial holdings
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal (News) 
The Daily Wire 
Jan 26 2024
Headline Roundup
MSNBC Host Joy Reid and Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Spar over ‘Book Bans’ in TV Interview
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice recently appeared on MSNBC (Left bias) host Joy Reid’s show to discuss “book bans” in the American school system.
The Details: Reid took the position that the small number of individuals responsible for most book challenges should not disproportionately affect school library catalogs. She argued that books with explicit content should be
Townhall
Fox News (Online News)
Mediaite
Apr 30 2024
Headline Roundup
Compassion or Hatred? What's Motivating Protesters on College Campuses?
As protests continue on campuses across the country, voices across the spectrum are debating if the protesters are motivated by compassion for the people of Gaza or hatred for Jewish people.
From the Left: In CNN Opinion (Left bias), a Jewish student at Yale defended the protests, stating that they have “encountered a community of activists and organizers that is eager to listen, ready
CNN (Opinion)
The Hill
New York Post (Opinion)
Apr 24 2019
News
Free College
On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a plan to forgive student loan debt and make public colleges free, paid for by a wealth tax. (Medium)
The left generally believes this is a strong start to trying to address the student loan debt problem, while some are critical of the plan's scale.
“Americans have long agreed that 12 years of
The Flip Side
Oct 23 2020
Perspectives Blog
Election Polls: Why They’re So Popular and How to Understand Them
As the 2020 election approaches, more and more news coverage is devoted to opinion polls. This coverage aims to accurately portray how the American public feels about political candidates. However, polls bring with them a host of statistical complexities and political implications that merit further analysis — and could potentially cause more harm than good if not conveyed properly.
Joseph Ratliff
Jun 24 2019
News
Here’s where all the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on abortion rights
They overwhelmingly support repealing the Hyde Amendment and codifying Roe v. Wade into law.
With near-total bans on abortion passing in state after state — and others responding by loosening restrictions on the procedure — the right to terminate a pregnancy is emerging as a major election issue in 2020.
When CNN pollsters asked Iowa Democratic voters earlier this month what
Vox
Apr 17 2019
News
‘Shadowy’ dark money network behind left-wing causes exposed in new report
An expansive network of “shadowy” dark money donors has grown to rival the influence of the conservative Koch brothers -- pumping millions into left-wing causes ranging from health care to climate change to abortion -- all while flying well under the radar of public scrutiny, according to an explosive new report obtained by Fox News.
The report, by conservative watchdog Capital Research
Fox News (Online News)
Oct 24 2014
News
The War on Teacher Tenure
It’s really difficult to fire a bad teacher. A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to change that.
On a warm day in early June, a Los Angeles County trial-court judge, Rolf M. Treu, pink-cheeked beneath a trim white beard, dropped a bombshell on the American public-school system. Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades-old California laws governing teacher
Time Magazine
Think Tank / Policy Group
Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 20,000 members and chapters across the United States. Since 1987, we've advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system--including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 30 million Americans who have none.
Oct 31 2019
Opinion
The MeToo Revolution Eats Its Own
The resignations pile up, from Al Franken to Katie Hill.
The marriage between feminism and the sexual revolution has been akin to a prude marrying a playboy. Its offspring were bound to be screwed up. One of its dysfunctional children is the MeToo movement, which continues to devour its friends, from Sen. Al Franken to Rep. Katie Hill.
The MeToo movement handed the hapless
The American Spectator