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Jul 07 2020
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Whether Protests Spread Coronavirus Depends On Your Bias
For months, Americans were told by public health officials to avoid mass gatherings and stay home in order to stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus. Many states explicitly banned gatherings over a certain number of people — usually 10 to 25 people — and many local and state governments continue to ban or discourage them to this day.
But despite these warnings and bans, bias
Julie Mastrine
Jan 09 2020
Analysis
To The Liberal Media’s Dismay, There Will Be No Disastrous War With Iran
The last few days have been an ongoing spectacle of media bias and incompetence in the coverage of the Qassem Suleimani strike and its fallout.
Mainstream outlets, suffering mightily from Trump derangement syndrome, practically rooted for a wider conflict with Iran in the hopes it might damage Trump, then evinced genuine disappointment when Iran backed down after half-heartedly lobbing
The Federalist
Feb 02 2021
News
Leadership includes humility? Some Republicans see an ideal to revive.
In the aftermath of the Capitol riot, some Republicans say the party needs to recover a lost principle of democratic leadership: humility and a sense of service.
Leaders in America have long faced a built-in challenge – a tension woven into the fabric of their nation’s version of democracy.
Individual elections are winner-take-all, and competition in a two-party system can mean
Christian Science Monitor
Aug 04 2020
News
Joe Biden bundlers plot fundraising blitz to follow running mate announcement
Joe Biden’s bundlers are planning to host a slew of virtual fundraisers for him and the Democratic National Committee, just after he announces his running mate, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Some of the expected co-hosts who are privately being mentioned are Hollywood movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, Wall Street executive Jim Chanos, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-
CNBC
Oct 06 2019
News
2nd whistleblower comes forward after speaking with IG: Attorney
Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine and triggered an impeachment inquiry, tells ABC News that he is now representing a second whistleblower who has spoken with the inspector general.
Zaid tells ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the second person -- also described as an intelligence
ABC News (Online)
Aug 31 2021
Analysis
NATO allies are preparing for a future without America’s “forever wars”
Afghanistan wasn’t just America’s 20-year war. It also belonged to US allies.
“This has been above all a catastrophe for the Afghan people. It’s a failure of the Western world and it’s a game changer for international relations,” the European Union’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell told an Italian newspaper Monday, according to the Washington Post.
“Certainly,” he continued, “we
Vox
Apr 27 2021
News
John Kerry denies ever having discussed Israeli strikes in Syria with Iran’s foreign minister.
John Kerry, a former secretary of state, said on Monday that he had never discussed covert Israeli airstrikes in Syria with Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, contrary to Mr. Zarif’s claim in a leaked conversation.
Mr. Zarif and Mr. Kerry spoke constantly when the two were negotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The Iranian foreign minister said in the recording, reported by
New York Times (News)
Sep 17 2020
News
Free assembly vs. public safety: US mayors making it work
Long months of civil disorder belie progress some U.S. mayors are making on reforms demanded by protesters and in best practices for dealing with the protests themselves.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has been getting it from all sides.
After more than 80 days of protests over racial injustice and policing, one of the city’s biggest real estate developers emailed the mayor and his
Christian Science Monitor
Aug 11 2015
News
Watts, 50 Years On, Stands in Contrast to Today’s Conflicts
Donny Joubert watched the boy round the corner of the housing project holding what looked like a handgun. The barrel was pointed at him and the two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department. The boy was 10 or 11 years old, Mr. Joubert figured, and had more gleam than anger in his eyes. Mr. Joubert, a community activist who grew up in the project, shouted and lunged for the gun.
It
New York Times (News)
Jun 19 2020
Opinion
The Silent Majority Can Be Silent No More
Lately it seems that we conservatives can't win even when we're winning. But the country is under siege, so we cannot indulge the luxury of being discouraged.
This year has been one body blow after another to the nation we love. First, there was the coronavirus, and we thought, "How can this get any worse?" Then came the economic shutdown and the incalculable pain and suffering it
Townhall