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Jun 25 2020
News
Study: Uber, Lyft Algorithms Charged More for Rides in Non-white Neighborhoods
A recent study shows the algorithm used by ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft may discriminate against customers taking trips to or from predominantly non-white neighborhoods.
According to Salon, the study, conducted by Aylin Caliskan and Akshat Pandey at George Washington University, assessed whether there was a racial disparity in how much passengers were being charged based on
Black Enterprise
Sep 17 2020
News
Biden's Town Hall Event Shows Why CNN Isn't Moderating the Presidential Debates
Joe Biden praised the idea of incorporating fact-checkers into the presidential debates, but those desperately needed fact-checkers were nowhere to be found at CNN's town hall event with Biden on Thursday.
In stark contrast to President Trump's town hall event with ABC's George Stephanopoulos earlier this week, CNN's Anderson Cooper and a crowd of mostly friendly supporters took turns
Townhall
Jun 24 2022
Perspectives Blog
Thinking of Switching Parties? Here’s Why Some People Do It
From the LeftOn June 18, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted some messages she had received about why people stopped identifying as Republicans. Responses included the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the murder of George Floyd, coming out as gay, and moving to a more diverse place, along with listening to left-wing personalities like Hasan Piker and Bernie Sanders.
Joseph Ratliff
Apr 25 2013
News
No Shame, No Class
President Obama uses the occasion of the dedication of George W. Bushs presidential library to
Townhall
Nov 27 2020
Analysis
'Mother of all superspreader events': Expert warns daily COVID deaths 'will double' in days after Thanksgiving
As millions of Americans are traveling across the country this Thanksgiving, ignoring CDC guidance to stay home and not mix households, a medical expert warns daily COVID-19 deaths will soon double.
"It's potentially the mother of all superspreader events," Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, tells CNN Thursday.
The U.S. saw more than 181
AlterNet
Feb 04 2014
News
Chris Christie on traffic scandal: 'The answer is still the same'
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie reiterated he knew nothing about lane closures at the George Washington Bridge.
CNN Digital
Jul 24 2020
Analysis
Why Trump Chose Portland
Violent, reckless federal forces have a friend in the city’s police.
For more than three weeks, federal security forces have been terrorizing protesters in Portland, Oregon. Unidentified agents in unmarked minivans are kidnapping demonstrators without warrants, assaulting journalists, and beating people in the streets. The militarized forces, which have battered crowds with tear gas and
Slate
Jun 17 2020
News
House Republican leaders condemn GOP candidate who made racist videos
The House’s highest-ranking Republicans are racing to distance themselves from a leading GOP congressional candidate in Georgia after POLITICO uncovered hours of Facebook videos in which she expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.
The candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, suggested that Muslims do not belong in government; thinks black people “are held slaves to the
Politico
Jul 29 2020
News
Trump to discuss energy, tour oil rig, raise money in Texas
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will shift his focus to American energy dominance during a stop in Texas later this week that will include his first visit to an oil rig.
During the stop Wednesday at Double Eagle Energy in the west Texas city of Midland, Trump will discuss how the U.S. is achieving energy dominance by cutting regulations, simplifying permitting and encouraging
Associated Press
Aug 24 2018
News
OPINION: The Republican position on Trump is nothing short of doublethink
There have been plenty of references to George’s Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” in trying to describe and understand the Trump presidency. But the word from the novel that most describes the Republicans’ unwavering defense and enabling of his presidency is doublethink. It has gone so far past hypocrisy as to be comprehensible only in near-hallucinatory terminology.
Tom Toles (cartoonist)