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Apr 29 2022
News
Manhattan Case Against Trump Fades as Grand Jury Wraps Up
An investigation in Manhattan into the business practices of former President Donald Trump appears to have fizzled as a special grand jury has stopped hearing potential evidence in the probe.
The grand jury is set to expire at the end of the week and will not be extended, sources tell ABC News.
Grand jurors stopped hearing evidence when Alvin Bragg became district attorney in
Newsmax (News)
Aug 05 2022
Opinion
Right-wing sheriffs are doing some really shady political organizing against the election system
The New York Times recently published a must-read investigation into right-wing activist efforts to organize county sheriffs for the purpose of challenging the electoral system based on 2020 election rigging disinformation. So far these efforts are relatively small, but they’re more worrisome for what they could grow into: a powerful tool for delegitimizing the voting system, and even a basis
MSNBC
Jul 25 2021
Analysis
Governments created an informational black hole for Indigenous communities and COVID-19
We may never know how many American Indians or Alaska Natives died of COVID-19. The Indian Health Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is not keeping track. The Centers for Disease Control cannot tell us. And some state health authorities will not disclose that data, despite multiple public records requests, even though it would shed light on the pandemic’s
Poynter
Aug 10 2022
News
Source: Iranian plot had $1M Pompeo bounty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was told by the Justice Department that he was a second target of a plot, revealed Wednesday, by an Iranian operative to murder former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.
Driving the news: A source close to Pompeo told Axios that DOJ "has confirmed directly to Secretary Pompeo that he is one of the individuals who has been
Axios
Oct 24 2020
News
Trump Secures Third Historic Middle East Peace Deal, This Time With Sudan
Sudan will be removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and will begin a partnership with the United States and Israel, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.
“HUGE win today for the United States and for peace in the world. Sudan has agreed to a peace and normalization agreement with Israel! With the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, that’s THREE Arab countries to have
The Federalist
Sep 24 2021
News
Biden's misleading claims about Haitian migrants in Del Rio
Biden administration officials are struggling to explain a massive influx of Haitian migrants, failing to reconcile what is happening at the southern border and what President Joe Biden’s aides have said.
Administration officials insist the thousands of Haitian migrants turning up in Del Rio, Texas, are being expelled from the United States upon their arrival.
“If you come to the
Washington Examiner
Dec 10 2015
News
Nearly two-thirds of GOP voters back Donald Trump's Muslim ban
A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of likely Republican primary voters support Donald Trumps plan to bar Muslims from the United States confounding his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination and TV news commentators who have condemned the idea as un-American.
Washington Times
Oct 01 2021
News
There’s a Bipartisan Voting Rights Bill. Yes, Really.
A bipartisan elections bill is the rarest of creatures, one many Americans have never seen in the wild.
Congressional Democrats are united behind sweeping voting rights legislation that won’t pass the Senate so long as the filibuster exists, because Republicans are united against it. Republican legislators in Texas, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere have passed numerous voting restrictions
New York Times (News)
Sep 19 2022
Analysis
Trump Oddly Claims He Invented The Word 'Caravans' And 'Lots Of Other Terms'
Former President Donald Trump has claimed that he invented the word "caravans" used to describe the mass movement of groups of migrants from one place to another.
During a rally speech in Ohio on Saturday, Trump also claimed that his administration flew groups of migrants to their origin countries but said certain places, like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, refused to take back
International Business Times
Mar 08 2023
Perspectives Blog
Helping Bridge the Gaps Among Young Adults
This piece was originally published on The Fulcrum, which AllSides rates as Center. It was written by Laura Chen, a Co-Founder of Civic Synergy, a political depolarization organization for young adults, and Lake Dodson, who studies Political Science, East Asian Studies, and Global Security at the University of Mississippi. Chen is a recent graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of
"The Fulcrum" Contributor