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Sep 17 2019
Opinion
Stossel: Life Is Better Than Ever
News reports often give the impression that human beings have wrecked the earth, the middle class is disappearing, and the world is getting more dangerous.
"We are destroying the planet," Michael Moore says on CNN. MSNBC says that "the middle class is disappearing." The media warn us about things like a "deadly Ebola outbreak."
This negativity comes from the way humans are wired
John StosselAug 27 2020
Opinion
Trump's Republicans are scoring on issues Democrats wouldn't mention
You know the first two nights of the Republicans’ virtual national convention have gone well when you see that Politico’s Playbook led off with a lame joke aimed at reviving Democrats' conspiracy theory about the Postal Service, that the agency is hiring a new lobbyist. Har har har.
The more pertinent news is that both parties have adapted deftly to the virtual format. Democrats
Michael BaroneOct 28 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: The Fetterman/Oz Debate
On Tuesday, a debate between Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, both running for a Senate seat, earned much media attention. It was the first and only debate between the two, and was widely anticipated, particularly following Fetterman’s stroke in May which has impacted his communication abilities and led his campaign to refuse more debates.
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Julie MastrineNov 14 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Democrats working through the five stages of grief, still in denial
Washington usually lives up to its reputation as a place where time stands still when all people in all the other places want to move, if not at warp speed, faster than Congress will. The Democrats, still as addled as the famous duck hit on the head by the farmer’s wife with a long-handled wooden spoon, are still trying to get through the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining
Walt Handelsman (cartoonist)Jan 29 2021
News
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up
Air Force One was fueled and ready for the final flight.
This was the end for Donald Trump, the last hours of a progressively more noxious and isolated presidency. But as he was poised to fly south from Joint Base Andrews into the uncertainty of his after-times, Ronna McDaniel was able to get him on the line.
McDaniel, the unfailingly amiable chairwoman of the Republican National
Washington PostMay 10 2019
News
The battle over Trump’s tax returns, explained
We’re starting to get at least a partial picture of what Donald Trump has been trying to hide since ducking releasing his tax returns during the 2016 campaign and then sidestepping demands from Democrats in Congress to see them.
The New York Times has delivered two major investigative scoops — unearthing tax documents filed by Trump’s father and some documents filed by Trump himself,
VoxNov 07 2019
News
A gerrymandering dirty dozen: What experts see as the House’s worst districts
How do you know when you've seen a gerrymandered district? Maybe it looks like a duck or a snake, or a pair of earmuffs. Or maybe there's no obvious sign that the mapmakers played games with the contours in order to ensure a particular electoral outcome inside those boundaries.
The last contests using the current set of congressional maps are a year away. After that, the results of the
The FulcrumAug 24 2020
News
Fairness: CNN/MSNBC Must Show 90% of GOP Convention Unfiltered
This week is a test for those in the television news business: Are they still trying to deliver “news,” which means letting their audience actually witness important events for themselves (albeit with analysis and commentary from the networks)? Or are they in the “we’ll-only-show-what-liberals-want-us-to-show” business?
Last week, CNN and MSNBC let their audiences see roughly 90 percent
NewsBustersNov 26 2019
News
White House says it will appeal ruling on McGahn testimony
Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that a judge’s ruling to force former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify in the House impeachment inquiry “may not be sustainable.”
Mrs. Conway told reporters at the White House that “nobody was surprised” by the ruling Monday from U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and that the Justice Department will appeal.
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Washington TimesNov 25 2019
News
Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools
HARTFORD, Conn. — The moon pulls 6-year-old Romeo Lugo to the window at night.
The autistic child loves to gaze up at it, howling like a werewolf as it rises like a luminous pearl over the horizon of city buildings and trees he sees from his second-floor apartment.
But on one particular evening four years ago, his mother, Aida, noticed something else as they stood at the window:
ProPublica