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Sep 22 2019
News
Sanders’s apples-and-oranges comparison on Medicare-for-all costs
“Joe said that Medicare-for-all would cost over $30 trillion. That’s right, Joe. Status quo over 10 years will be $50 trillion.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), remarks during the third Democratic presidential debate, Sept. 12, 2019
Sanders made this comment after former vice president Joe Biden criticized the senator’s Medicare-for-all plan for potentially adding “$30 trillion, $
Washington PostApr 29 2018
News
Historic Korean summit sets high bar for Trump
Bitter foes for more than six decades, North and South Korea agreed Friday to “denuclearize” the Korean Peninsula — but the hard part is being left to President Trump.
The HillSep 27 2012
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Scientists: Climate bias at Fox, WSJ ‘far exceeded’ rest of media
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published a study criticizing Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journals opinion section for misleading coverage of the climate change issue. Jumping straight to the key findings:
¢ Over a recent six-month period, 93 percent of Fox News Channels representations of climate science were misleading (37 out of 40 instances).
Washington PostApr 15 2020
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Black Businesses Matter, But Will They Get Fair Share Of COVID-19 Aid Money?
“African Americans never really recovered from the housing crash and economic meltdown and that reality is going to be a very important factor for Black people, especially since the U.S. may be going into some form of depression,” said Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. “I saw a report last week that shows the
Chicago DefenderHumor & Satire
Comedy Central
Learn the AllSides Media Bias Rating of Comedy Central. AllSides rates the media bias of hundreds of media outlets, journalists, and sources.
Mar 05 2015
News
Political Polarization in the American Public
For more than two decades political scientists have discussed rising elite polarization in the United States, but the study of mass polarization did not receive comparable attention until fairly recently. This article surveys the literature on mass polarization. It begins with a discussion of the concept of polarization, then moves to a critical consideration of different kinds of evidence
Annual Review of Political ScienceNov 18 2019
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Pompeo Announces U.S. Will Not Consider Israeli Settlements Illegal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. would no longer consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be in violation of international law.
The move reversed 41 years of U.S. policy regarding the issue based on a 1978 legal opinion from the State Department that concluded the settlements were “inconsistent with international law.” In 1981 the policy was
National Review (News)Jul 07 2020
News
8-year-old girl fatally shot near Rayshard Brooks' memorial site; Atlanta mayor tells protesters to 'clear out'
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told protesters Sunday to "clear out" of an area near where Rayshard Brooks was killed by police last month after an 8-year-old girl was fatally shot near the site over the weekend.
"You shot and killed a baby," she said at a news conference. "Enough is enough."
Bottoms said the girl, Secoriea Turner, was shot Saturday night while riding in a
NBC News DigitalOct 16 2019
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Dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide
Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.
Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on the bitcoin cryptocurrency to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse, authorities said, including footage of extremely young children being raped. Its upload
ReutersJun 26 2020
Analysis
Forever Families for Forgotten Kids
Last year, I met with a group of students who had endured the foster-care system. Anthony was moved from foster home to foster home for 18 years — his entire childhood. Another, David, had entered foster care at eight years old. He was placed in seven different inpatient facilities within six months. Both expressed their hope that no child would ever have to experience what they had.
National Review (News)