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Aug 19 2020
Analysis
Remote Learning Is a Bad Joke
One exciting thing about being alive at this pivotal moment in history is that I’m constantly learning about strong opinions I didn’t previously know I had. Before mid-March 2020, if you’d asked me how I felt about videoconferencing, I’d have shrugged. It’s fine? Now I would have to amend that opinion slightly. It’s not fine. It’s horrible, a form of psychic torture, and I hate it so deeply
The AtlanticNov 02 2020
Perspectives Blog
When Democracy Could Break
Anyone who visits the AllSides website — by definition — understands the importance of seeking out a wide range of information and opinion. That’s the way democracy functions, when we’re willing to listen to those who may disagree with us.
That attitude may be especially helpful to us in the days ahead, as we wait to learn the outcome of the presidential election. With any luck, this
Dan SchnurAug 17 2020
Analysis
What We’ve Stolen From Our Kids
In the beginning, the pandemic was a child-care crisis. School was closing today, and then maybe tomorrow. Who would leave work to get the children? Who had to cancel everything? Then it was clear that there wasn’t going to be school, for a week, maybe two, then a month, then the rest of the school year. And then a little while after that, it became clear that in-person summer camp was out too
The AtlanticNov 27 2019
News
The Science of Polarization and Insights for Bridge-building
Many PACE members and partners are all-too familiar with the challenges posed by polarization today. Looking at it through a scientific lens, however, can help. Science reveals valuable insights about the nature and impact of modern-day polarization. It can also illuminate effective tools for bridge-building.
The Problem of Toxic Polarization
Why is polarization in the U.S.
PACEJan 05 2019
News
Trump Keeps Giving Mueller Reasons to Pursue the ‘Collusion’ Probe
The special counsel is going to keep digging until Trump stops this. It’s a new year with a new Congress, but it’s the same question: When is Special Counsel Robert Mueller going to file his much-anticipated final report? My 2018 answer was: When he’s good and ready. I have a caveat for 2019, though: Maybe when President Trump stops giving him additional reasons to keep digging.
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National Review (News)Jun 13 2020
News
Is it time to reimagine police shows and movies?
One of America’s most popular entertainment genres is the police show. Stories about crime are exciting, dramatic and have drawn large audiences for decades. But as the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others have sparked widespread protests and the nation reckons with police brutality and systemic racism, TV shows about law enforcement have come under fresh scrutiny for
Yahoo! The 360Jun 12 2020
News
The City that Really Did Abolish the Police
And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J.
It was the moment that America needed.
Days after George Floyd died at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, a different scene was playing out in what was once the most dangerous city in the United States.
Joseph D. Wysocki was marching in the streets
PoliticoJun 08 2020
News
Democrats’ Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls
Democratic lawmakers, operatives, and commentators are calling for the defunding or abolition of America's police departments in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin's killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.
While the proposal is popular among the party's progressive activist wing and on Twitter, it faces a hard wall of resistance among the wider public. A recent YouGov poll showed that
Washington Free BeaconMar 23 2019
News
Mueller report: Here's what we know and still don't know (and may never know)
The investigation that has cast a cloud over Donald Trump's presidency is over. Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final and confidential report on Friday afternoon, signaling the end of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump's campaign. Attorney General William Barr announced its end in a letter to top lawmakers on
USA TODAYOct 24 2015
News
U.S. Won’t Prosecute Former IRS Official Lois Lerner
The Justice Department won’t charge Lois Lerner, a former Internal Revenue Service official, over Tea Party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, closing a nearly 2 1/2-year investigation with a determination that IRS officials bungled the matter but committed no crimes.
“Our investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia,
Wall Street Journal (News)