AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Apr 22 2019
News
Supreme Court Mulls Citizenship Question for Census
This is another case in which Trump administration behavior is provoking plaintiffs to ask the judiciary to police the blurry boundaries of executive discretion.
The oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday will be more decorous than the gusts of judicial testiness that blew the case up to the nation’s highest tribunal. The case, which raises arcane questions of
National Review (News)Jun 08 2014
News
U.S., Iran to Hold Talks on Tehran's Nuclear Program
The U.S. and Iran will hold bilateral talks on Tehran's nuclear program on June 9-10 in Geneva, the State Department said Saturday.
The high-level negotiations will take place five weeks ahead of a July 20 diplomatic deadline that Iran and world powers have set to try to end the international dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
U.S. and European officials have hinted in recent
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 23 2014
News
You're Enjoying Low Gas Prices, But Is It Really A Good Sign?
All around the country, gasoline prices have been falling for weeks, down to an average of about $3 a gallon. Those lower prices are helping restrain inflation across the board.
On Wednesday, the Labor Department said its consumer price index barely inched up 0.1 percent last month. Over the past 12 months, the CPI has risen by 1.7 percent, roughly half of its historical average rate of
NPR (Online News)Jul 08 2019
News
Citizenship Back in the Census?
“The Justice Department said Friday it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, hours after President Donald Trump said he is ‘very seriously’ considering an executive order to get the question on the form.” (AP News)
The left opposes adding a citizenship question due to the risk that minorities will be undercounted,
The Flip SideJun 01 2014
News
Were bonuses tied to VA wait times? Here's what we know
It's one of the more disturbing revelations to arise from an investigation into fatal delays in care at Veterans Affairs medical centers: Employee bonuses appear to be one factor behind the manipulation of patient wait times in at least one hospital. Two reports released this week -- one by the VA's inspector general and another by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs --
CNN (Online News)May 31 2019
News
How disinformation works: News outlets are filtering Mueller's statement through Trump's lies
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Wednesday statement served as an indictment of the press for its failure to effectively convey the damning conclusions of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the public and its willingness to accept the dishonest spin of President Donald Trump and the members of his administration. But the behavior of many major news
Media MattersJun 08 2015
News
Barack Obama poised to hike wages for millions
The Obama administration is on the verge of possibly doubling the salary levels that would require employers to pay overtime in the most ambitious government intervention on wages in a decade. And it doesn’t need Congress’s permission. As early as this week, the Labor Department could propose a rule that would raise the current overtime threshold — $23,660 – to as much as $52,000, extending
PoliticoApr 18 2019
News
Mueller says evidence prevents 'conclusively determining no criminal conduct occurred'
Special counsel Robert Mueller said in his long-awaited report that he was unable to “conclusively determine” during the course of his investigation that no criminal conduct occurred in regards to whether President Trump obstructed justice.
Mueller’s investigators wrote that they were “unable” to say definitively that Trump did not commit an obstruction of justice offense because of “
The HillSep 28 2013
News
Obama chides Republicans as shutdown looms
With Washington barreling toward a government shutdown, a deadlocked Congress entered the final weekend of the fiscal year with no clear ideas of how to avoid furloughs for more than 800,000 federal workers. Millions more could be left without paychecks.
The Senate on Friday approved a stopgap government funding bill and promptly departed, leaving all of the pressure to find a solution
Washington PostJan 06 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Washington Post Omits Details on “Peaceful” Hawley Protesters
On Tuesday morning, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and The Daily Wire (Right bias) both accused the Washington Post (Lean Left bias) of media bias for its report on a protest that occurred Monday night outside Hawley’s home.
In addition to displaying media bias by omission and slant, the Washington Post illustrates that people increasingly have very different definitions of what the word "
Julie Mastrine