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Aug 27 2012
Perspectives Blog
AllSides in Sunday SF Chronicle
It was great to wake up to this article on Sunday morning - the SF Chronicle's story on our launch, taking almost half !!! of the front page of the Business Section and also online at SF Gate: Breaking through the political noise.
Benny Evangelista interviewed me last week and did a great job at introducing what we're up to. He also adds some powerful stuff from the Pew Research Center'
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Oct 06 2020
Opinion
Why Fox News Is Still in a Coronavirus Bubble
Humans will do figure eights to make facts suit their fictions. Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity help the faithful do that.
Back in the 1950s, the psychologist Leon Festinger came up with cognitive dissonance theory, which can essentially be described as the very human desire to reconcile the irreconcilable. Our brains, he realized, will go to baroque lengths — do magic tricks, even — to
New York Times (Opinion)
Oct 05 2020
Analysis
HIPAA Applies to the President, Too
On the menu today: HIPAA, the American Medical Association’s code of ethics, and other factors that prevent the president’s doctor, Sean Conley, from revealing too many details of President Trump’s condition without the patient’s permission; wondering just how reliable the rapid tests used by the White House are; Andy McCarthy elaborates on FBI director Christopher Wray and his definition of
National Review (News)
Sep 06 2016
News
Editorial: The art of listening
When freshmen set foot on our campus, they are setting out on a path of discovery. They will be faced with a great flood of ideas they had never encountered before, and encouraged to face each new experience with a fresh and open mind without any preconceptions. But the 2016-2017 academic year is not an ordinary year — we are all faced with a polarized national community. The approval levels
University of Delaware Review
May 06 2020
News
In change of plans, Trump now says coronavirus task force will continue 'indefinitely'
A day after President Donald Trump confirmed that he planned to wind down the White House coronavirus task force, the president announced Wednesday that it will now continue indefinitely.
In a series of tweets, Trump said the task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, has done a “fantastic job of bringing together vast highly complex resources that have set a high standard for others
NBC News (Online)
Oct 11 2019
Opinion
The Banality of Insurgency
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burst into Congress, a twenty-nine-year-old bartender and socialist defeating a fifty-seven-year-old white male, beneficiary of longtime voter quiescence, a narrative was born: insurgency!
And she wasn’t the only one that year. That same year, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar also joined Congress. In New York State and around the country, young challengers (
Jacobin
Feb 24 2020
Opinion
Surging Sanders terrifies Democrats – do they actually want to win in November?
Bernie Sanders is on a roll. After a strong showing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and “Berning” through Nevada, the socialist senator from Vermont is without a doubt the Democrat front-runner.
Odds-makers are giving Bernie a 55 percent chance of becoming the Democrat nominee.
Which raises a legitimate question: Do Democrats actually want to win the White House in November?
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Fox News (Opinion)
Apr 25 2015
News
In tearful ceremony, Holder bids farewell to Justice Department
Hundreds of Justice Department staff and lawyers gathered in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Building Friday to give the nation's first African-American attorney general a send-off.
It was a more tightly-scripted version of the thunderous welcome he received in 2009 when Holder entered the building. The goodbye ceremony included a nine-minute video lauding the attorney general
CNN (Online News)
Apr 08 2016
Conversation Guide
Freedom
Freedom is a key concept in America’s founding documents.We are proud to be a free people. This said, there are legitimate differing interpretations of what freedom means. “Live and let live” is great until the freedom to use my property as I see fit interferes with your property. Or when someone’s speech harms another person’s freedoms. Is it ever good for the government to limit an assembly
Living Room Conversations
Sep 29 2020
Analysis
The Most Brazen Trick Trump Tried to Pull on His Taxes
The explosive New York Times report on Donald Trump’s tax returns confirms a great number of things about the president’s finances we’ve only been able to speculate about for years. We now know that Trump really was telling the truth when he claimed, beginning in the 2016 presidential campaign, that he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (though such an audit would not prevent
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