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U.S. authorities accuse Assange of conspiring with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning

LONDON—British police arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London on a U.S. extradition request, a dramatic escalation in Washington’s long-running efforts to prosecute a man it accuses of running a foreign “hostile intelligence service.”

British police arrested Mr. Assange

First, a little celebration for our information revolution! We are excited to report that AllSides.com has seen massive traffic growth over the last several months, reaching more than 1 million monthly views this month.

Next, a little bit of perspective whiplash. This week, we saw wildly varied takes on the ongoing Healthcare Exchanges rollout. Here are just a few examples of that. 

A new survey finds that just over half of Americans disapprove of the new health care law while 42 percent approve of it. The Pew Research Center and USA Today released findings Monday that say approval of the Affordable Care Act ticked upward after the Supreme Court upheld the law last year, but “opinions are now as negative as they have been any point since the bill’s passage.”

Turmoil in financial markets reflects widespread fears over a global recession amid the coronavirus pandemic. How policymakers respond could be critical to the length and depth of such a recession.

It’s a seemingly intractable dilemma, suddenly as salient in Berlin or Tokyo as it is in Washington: How do you save people’s economic livelihoods while telling those same people to stay