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Apr 05 2019
Headline Roundup
Economy Adds 196,000 Jobs in March, Exceeding Expectations
The economy added 196,000 jobs in March, rebounding from a weak February and beating economists' expectations. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8 percent.
Townhall CNN Digital USA TODAYJul 01 2020
Analysis
Trumpism, not polarization, drives America’s disastrous coronavirus politics
“This outcome is a policy choice. The unnecessary lives lost. The long-term effects we don’t even know about yet on our vital organs. It’s all a policy choice.”
On June 25, the Pew Research Center published a startling poll. The difference between Democratic and Republican attitudes on Covid-19 was growing. Thirty-seven percent of Democrats, but 72 percent of Republicans, said they’d
Ezra KleinOct 08 2012
News
Telecom, Internet & Information Policy
Cato's research on telecommunications and information policy advances a vision of free minds and free markets within the information policy, information technology, and telecommunications sectors of the American economy. Cato scholars work to address the many contentious public policy concerns and debates surrounding these important sectors, including privacy, identification, data security and
Cato InstituteJan 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: AP and Reuters’ Fact Checks on “Mass Formation Psychosis”
From the Right
Two recent fact checks by the Associated Press Fact Check (Lean Left) and Reuters Fact Check (Center) recently drew a lot of attention on Twitter. The outlets quoted psychologists who said “mass formation psychosis,” a concept that rose to prominence when cited by Dr. Robert Malone in a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, is an unfounded theory. The fact checks
Julie MastrineMay 12 2019
News
Handful of 'left leaning sources' dominate Google's 'Top Stories,' study finds
A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of sources.
Researches Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos conducted their study by looking at the results of over 200 news related questions every day in November 2017. They found 6,303 individual links to articles in the Top Stories Box
Washington TimesFeb 19 2015
News
Clinton foundation’s global network overlaps with family’s political base
Since its creation in 2001, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has raised close to $2 billion from a vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign governments and other wealthy interests, according to a Washington Post review of public records and newly released contribution data.
The total, representing cash and pledges reported in tax
Washington PostJan 08 2020
Analysis
The Trump administration’s subtle, devious plan to dismantle abortion rights
Roe v. Wade doesn’t mean much if no one can sue to enforce it.
In March, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of consolidated cases — June Medical Services v. Gee and Gee v. June Medical Services — that present the single greatest threat to the right to an abortion in decades.
The Trump administration filed a brief in these cases last week, asking the Court to dramatically curtail
VoxMay 16 2019
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Multiple States Pass Near-Bans on Abortion
Alabama, Missouri, and Georgia, among another states, have moved to effectively ban abortion, passing legislation that would prohibit in the practice in nearly every circumstance. Some have decried the bills as oppressively anti-woman, while others dispute the idea that terminating a pregnancy is a constitutional right. Many see the bills as evidence the two sides are drifting farther toward AllSides StaffMay 27 2021
Analysis
Understanding China Is Getting Harder Every Month
It has never been easy to write about China, but today access is harder, and sources are more limited than they have been for decades. The pandemic hasn’t helped—since March 2020, China’s borders have been closed to most non-Chinese citizens. The result of this is that it is even harder for outsiders—and even most Chinese—to understand what is happening inside the country.
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Foreign PolicyApr 24 2020
Perspectives Blog
Updated Media Bias Ratings: Associated Press and AP Fact Check
The Associated Press media bias remains one of the trickiest for AllSides to determine.
We have long rated AP media bias as Center; however, the results of our February 2020 blind bias survey showed participants from across the political spectrum on average believe AP bias is Lean Left. In response, AllSides conducted an editorial review of AP News on April 23, 2020 to determine if we
Julie Mastrine