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May 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 MastrineAug 13 2019
News
As 2020 race heats up, growing worries Warren and Sanders will split leftist vote
At rallies at the Iowa State Fair last week, 2020 White House contenders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders drew raucous crowds who chanted their names, waved signs and cheered at their every pledge.
Friends and liberal standard bearers of the Democratic Party, the two U.S. senators espouse many of the same causes: universal healthcare, taking on Wall Street, and raising the minimum
ReutersJan 25 2022
Headline Roundup
Biden Calls Fox News Reporter a 'Stupid SOB'
President Joe Biden cursed a Fox News reporter Monday in response to a question about inflation.
As journalists were ushered out of the White House's East Room following a meeting of Biden's Competition Council, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden if he thinks "inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms?" Biden responded sarcastically: "That’s a great asset — more
CNN Digital Reuters National Review (News)Mar 12 2024
Headline Roundup
TikTok Ban: Freedom of Speech vs. National Security
Should TikTok be banned if ByteDance refuses to sell the app to an American company?
For Context: The House of Representatives could soon vote on a bill that would give President Joe Biden authority to ban TikTok if ByteDance, the app’s Chinese parent company, does not sell the app to an American company.
First Amendment Concerns? A columnist in the Boston Globe (Left bias)
The Boston Globe Newsweek Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Dec 19 2015
News
Sanders gets the fight he wanted
Bernie Sanders has turned months of private grumbling into public accusations that the party establishment is doing everything in its power to elect Hillary Clinton president. He’s not the first to level that charge. In fact, he’s late to that party. But by twisting his breach of Clinton’s voter files into an indictment of the Democratic Party for temporarily cutting him off from his own data
PoliticoJul 15 2015
News
This astonishing chart shows how moderate Republicans are an endangered species
Political scientists have known for years that political polarization is largely a one-sided phenomenon: in recent decades the Republican Party has moved to the right much faster than Democrats have moved to the left. As Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution has described it, "Republicans have become a radical insurgency—ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime,
Washington PostAug 10 2020
Analysis
The Trump Pandemic
A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans.
On July 17, President Donald Trump sat for a Fox News interview at the White House. At the time, nearly 140,000 Americans were dead from the novel coronavirus. The interviewer, Chris Wallace, showed Trump a video clip in which Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned
SlateMay 03 2019
News
U.S. Hiring Jumped in April; Unemployment Falls to 3.6%
Nation saw increased employment in professional business services, construction and health care.
American employers picked up the pace of hiring in April and the unemployment rate fell to a fresh half-century low, adding to signs of a healthy U.S. economy.
Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 263,000 in April, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: CDC Says Vaccinated People Usually Don't Need Masks Outside
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines on Tuesday regarding mask-wearing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying vaccinated people can go maskless outside in most situations. The CDC says vaccinated people should still avoid indoor large-sized in-person gatherings and
AllSides Staff