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Jul 16 2019
News
Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism
It’s useful, always, to consult the stylebook. Earlier this year, the Associated Press belatedly revised its entry on race, which now reads, “Do not use racially charged or similar terms as euphemisms for racist or racism when the latter terms are truly applicable.” The recommendation is a concession to clarity, not to passion or politics. The regulators of news language recognize that to
The New Yorker
May 12 2015
News
Jeb Bush: People can be ‘persuaded’ on immigration
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he thinks people can be “persuaded” on the issue of immigration and questioned whether people want to elect a president who will simply “bend with the wind.”
“I’ve been traveling over the last three months, and I get a sense that a lot of people can be persuaded, to be honest with you,” he said in an interview that aired Monday evening on Fox News’ “The
Washington Times
Apr 21 2016
Perspectives Blog
Obama Visits Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has told the U.S. that it will sell off 100’s of billions of dollars in American assets if Congress passes a bill that allows foreign governments to be sued for any role in 9/11 attacks. The threat has been hotly debated. Senators were warned there could be serious economic and diplomatic fallout if this law, Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), is passed. In the John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
May 10 2015
News
Ben Carson: 'Condescending' to Say Poor Can't Pay Taxes
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson defended his flat tax plan on Sunday, saying it is "condescending" to poor people to say they can't pay taxes.
The 63-year-old Carson himself grew up poor in Detroit before becoming a pioneering pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Carson defended the idea, which he termed a "proportional tax,"
Newsmax (News)
Oct 23 2012
News
Oct. 21: Uncertainty Clouds Polling, but Obama Remains Electoral College Favorite
The bad news for President Obama: its been almost a week since the second presidential debate, in Hempstead, N.Y., one that instant-reaction polls said was a narrow victory for him. But there is little sign that this has translated into a bounce for Mr. Obama in his head-to-head polls against Mitt Romney. Instead, the presidential race may have settled into a period of relative stability.
New York Times (News)
May 03 2013
News
Dow Hits 15,000 For The First Time; Closes Just Shy Of The Mark
The stock market continues its winning streak: The Dow Jones hit another milestone today, tapping 15,000 for the first time, but closing just shy of the milestone.
This, of course, follows good news about the job market released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All of this got The Wall Street Journal thinking: just how long does it take the Dow to climb 1,000 points. They
NPR (Online News)
Jan 05 2021
Headline Roundup
Fact Checking the Georgia Senate Runoff Races
The candidates in Tuesday's pivotal U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia have often criticized their opponents, but haven't always done so based on fact.
In general, fact-checking is done more overall by left and center-rated news outlets, and that was reflected in fact-checking around the runoffs. Many of those articles were comprehensive in explaining falsehoods spread by
Townhall
PolitiFact
FactCheck.org
Jan 05 2014
News
Mitt Romney Blasts Obama For Telling People What Kind Of Insurance To Buy
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama on Sunday for the broken promise that Obama's landmark health care reform law would not cause anyone to lose their existing insurance policies.
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asked Romney what bothered him the most about the troubled rollout of Obamacare in the past year.
"It's not just that the
HuffPost
May 07 2015
News
Why Carly Fiorina is on a media blitz
A central theme of Carly Fiorina's nascent campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is that she is uniquely positioned to neutralize the historic potential of Hillary Clinton's 2016 bid.
But first, she has to introduce herself to voters, who in large part don't know who she is.
On the day she announced her candidacy, Fiorina sat for two interviews with ABC's "Good
CNN Digital
Jan 23 2015
Opinion
Income Inequality Is a Problem—When Caused by Government Meddling
Income inequality is back in the news, propelled by an Oxfam International report and President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. The question is whether government needs to do something about this—or whether government needs to undo many things.
Measuring income inequality is no simple thing, which is one source of disagreement between those who think inequality is a problem
Reason