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Oct 12 2020
Analysis
Celebrating Columbus
Christopher Columbus, the most famous explorer in history, was once a celebrated hero. Now, many consider him a villain, a despoiler of paradise. So which version of Columbus is true? Michael Knowles answers this question and offers some much-needed historical perspective.
He ventured where no other man of his age dared to go. He saw things no other man of his age had ever seen. He
Prager UniversityNov 26 2020
Opinion
Thanksgiving Is Not a Lie
We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country’s oldest traditions is under assault.
Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, at best, based on falsehoods and, at worst, a whitewash of genocide against Native Americans.
The New York Times ran a piece the other day titled, “The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year,” bristling with hostility toward
Rich LowryJan 30 2015
News
Hillary Clinton’s ‘WMD’ moment: U.S. intelligence saw false narrative in Libya
The intelligence community gathered no specific evidence of an impending genocide in Libya in spring 2011, undercutting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s primary argument for using the U.S. military to remove Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power, an event that has left his country in chaos, according to officials with direct knowledge of the dispute.
Washington TimesJan 19 2022
Opinion
NBA silence on China proves it's less interested in human rights than the bottom line
It is something only a blinkered sociopath or a billionaire hedge fund manager would say out loud. The financial titan in question, Chamath Palihapitiya, said with a shrug to fellow co-hosts of his podcast All-In, "Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs, OK? You bring it up because you really care, and I think it's nice that you care, the rest of us don't care. ... I'm just telling
MSNBCNov 26 2020
Analysis
400 years after 'First Thanksgiving,' tribe that fed the Pilgrims fights for survival
Depending on where you grew up and went to school, you probably learned a different version of the first Thanksgiving.
Generally, it goes something like this: The Pilgrims were facing a rough winter in Massachusetts when a tribe of Native Americans came to their aid, showing them how to plant native crops and forging a future of peace and cooperation between the two groups. In some
The HillMar 22 2020
Background
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and is awaiting
WikipediaOct 26 2021
Opinion
Is ignoring the pandemic a crime against humanity?
Brazil has the world’s second-highest official Covid-19 death toll, just after the United States, with more than 600,000 fatalities. Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, had a deadly first wave that saw mass graves, and a dangerous second where it ran out of oxygen. Through it all, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed what he once called the “little flu,” dismissed public
VoxOct 27 2020
Analysis
Is the U.S. Already in a New Civil War?
America’s COVID-19 numbers aren’t under control. In many places they're getting worse. Large portions of the west coast are on fire, social media is fueling genocides, and political violence in the U.S. is increasing. People are marching in the streets, aligned with two ideologically distinct factions. Many of them (overwhelmingly from one side) are armed, and violence and death has resulted
ViceAug 16 2022
Perspectives Blog
Is Wikipedia Biased?
Updated 1/4/2023 and 8/16/22. Originally published 3/16/21.
Is Wikipedia biased?
AllSides provides media bias ratings for over 800 sources and writers. Until 2021, we rated Wikipedia as Center, but changed them to Not Rated because the online encyclopedia does not fit neatly into AllSides’ media bias rating methodologies, which were developed specifically for news sites.
Julie MastrineAug 11 2021
Opinion
CNN’s Acosta Finds New Villain as Trump Recedes: ‘DeSantis Variant’
Jim Acosta’s act has grown tired in the Biden Era. Nevertheless, the CNN reporter-turned-anchor persists in adopting every conventional liberal Twitter opinion and vilifying anyone who takes a more nuanced approach. Take his objections to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s approach to pandemic policy-making, for example.
On Saturday, Acosta singled out DeSantis as being responsible for the
National Review (News)