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Aug 20 2019
News
How US cities are scrambling to protect people from extreme heat
With cities facing both rapid growth and radical, permanent climate change, urban authorities are faced with an increasingly vulnerable population
On a sweltering summer day in Washington, DC, Judy Williams pulls up to a homeless day center to fill her van with bottled water.
The homeless outreach coordinatoris headed to the spots where she knows she’ll find people who are living
The Guardian
Nov 06 2019
News
The Kentucky Governor’s Race Is a Warning to Republicans
The Republican incumbent couldn’t overcome the unpopularity of the party’s agenda. That doesn’t bode well for the GOP in 2020.
Donald Trump wants his party to believe that he was the hero of the campaign in Kentucky, who almost—but not quite—rescued a deeply unpopular governor from defeat.
But to understand why November 2019 is so ominous for Republicans, you need to understand
The Atlantic
News Media
Subverse
The AllSides media bias rating of Subverse is Center. This is an initial rating given with low confidence; more research is needed. Subverse bills itself as an outlet delivering unbiased news: "We cover stories with zero spin, so you can think for yourself," its homepage reads.
Nov 05 2019
News
Some battleground polls missed 2016. Are they better for 2020?
A number of swing state pollsters misjudged candidate Donald Trump’s rise three years ago, in part due to flaws in their methods. Here’s how they’ve tried to improve for President Trump’s reelection race.
Is President Donald Trump going to win reelection? Numerous national polls show him losing to all three of the leading Democratic candidates: Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie
Christian Science Monitor
May 22 2019
News
U.S. Democrats to press Trump on paying for infrastructure boost
Democrats in Congress will press U.S. President Donald Trump at a White House meeting on Wednesday for details on how to pay for a massive boost in U.S. infrastructure spending after agreeing in April to try to win approval of a $2 trillion package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement late on Tuesday that Trump in April had
Reuters
Jul 30 2020
Perspectives Blog
The Roles and Responsibilities of Op-Ed Sections and of the Public
Recent conversations and controversies surrounding the venerable op-ed pages at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have been framed in various ways, with commentators using phrases such as cancel culture, an attack on freedom of speech, an example of poor fact checking, and other buzzwords of the moment.
But instead of helping us have a nuanced conversation, this discourse
Gina Baleria
Apr 07 2015
News
What Rand Paul Would Need to Do to Win
Mr. Paul will try to put together a disparate coalition of voters: the libertarian faithful who supported his father, former Representative Ron Paul, in 2008 and 2012; Tea Party adherents drawn to his small-government fiscal conservatism; and some who are not even Republicans, like college students and blacks, groups he has been wooing for a year and a half. The question is whether the parts
New York Times (News)
May 12 2015
News
Reporters got a lot wrong covering Ebola. We should do better next time.
We journalists often rush from one story to the next with whiplash-inducing speed — and sometimes without time to reflect. On Monday, however, a few of us paused. Just as Liberia was finally declared Ebola-free, I appeared on a panel organized by the One Campaign alongside colleagues from NPR, the Washington Post, Ebola Deeply, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Together, we
Vox
Apr 02 2020
Analysis
Trump Should Forget Iran. America Has a Pandemic To Handle.
Keeping up maximum pressure is a dangerous distraction for the United States and catastrophic for the Iranian people.
The Trump administration's Iran policy has been business as usual since the spread of the novel coronavirus began, and that's a grave mistake. The president's tweet today warning Iran "or its proxies" against any "sneak attack on U.S. troops and/or assets in Iraq" is
Reason