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Jun 02 2021
Analysis
One year after #BlackoutTuesday, what have companies really done for racial justice?
Checking in on black square-posting brands, from Starbucks to Glossier.
On May 25, 2020, footage of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis set the internet ablaze, igniting a fervor for justice among the attentive and then-quarantined online masses. In the now widely circulated video, George Floyd can be heard pleading, “I can’t breathe” — the same three words Eric Garner had
Vox
May 06 2021
Opinion
How campaign finance corruption keeps the minimum wage low
Many of us have worked from home during the pandemic, but not everybody has that luxury. Have you been to your local grocery store? Minimum wage workers who have kept food on our tables have been called "frontline heroes" – and yet when the chance arose to increase their wage to $15 an hour, the proposal was voted down. And the vote was not just along party lines – eight Democrats joined
The Fulcrum
May 06 2021
Analysis
STUDY: PolitiFact's 8 Times as Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts
PolitiFact insists that they are nonpartisan fact checkers. “The PolitiFact agenda is – don’t take sides with any politician or party,” claimed editor Angie Drobnic Holan. “We’re independent and we work hard to find the truth. So we follow the facts wherever they take us, regardless of who made the claim.”
That claim is not factual. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that
NewsBusters
Jul 21 2020
Fact Check
FactChecking Trump’s ‘Fox News Sunday’ Interview
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, who frequently fact-checked the president in real time, contained a long list of false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims:
The president claimed other countries, later mentioning Europe, are only testing for COVID-19 if someone is “really sick” and that the “massive” testing in the U.S. “
FactCheck.org
Feb 09 2021
Fact Check
Were the Bidens Booed During Their Speech at the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl Sunday kicked off in Tampa, Florida, on Feb. 7, 2021, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to make a pre-recorded statement televised before the game began between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
In their statement, they thanked frontline healthcare workers and called for a moment of silence for
Snopes
Mar 27 2020
News
Thousands are crowding into free national parks. And workers are terrified of coronavirus.
Two days before he cursed a supervisor and quit the National Park Service job he loved, Dustin Stone arrived to work in a foul mood. A decision by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to keep national park sites open despite the coronavirus outbreak left him angry and in disbelief.
The virus hasn’t reached Skagway, a tiny town on the Alaskan panhandle where Stone lives and worked at the
Washington Post
Jan 17 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Impeachment Moves to the Senate
A team of House representatives chosen as "impeachment managers" present the articles against President Donald Trump to the Senate Thursday afternoon, setting in motion the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
Opening arguments begin next Tuesday, when 100 Senators become jurors and prepare to hear each side make its case. A Senate decision on dismissing the articles or
Henry A. Brechter
Dec 28 2020
News
Manhattan appeals court blocks Cuomo’s limits on religious gatherings
The federal appeals court in Manhattan on Monday struck down New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic-related executive order setting capacity limits at houses of worship –because it “discriminates against religion on its face.”
The three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously sided with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, the Orthodox Jewish group
New York Post (News)
Nov 10 2017
News
De-Polarizing America: What Citizens can do to Unite our Nation
The word on the street is that U.S. politics are more polarized today than they have been since 1879, just after the U.S. Civil War. The good news is that this is half wrong. The data tells us that when it comes to such things as strength of party affiliation and political ideology (Liberal versus Conservative), we have actually been holding steady for several decades. Similarly, on many of
HuffPost
Sep 23 2018
News
Trump Willing to Meet With Iran's Rouhani at UN, Pompeo Says
President Donald Trump is willing to meet with Iran’s Hassan Rouhani when world leaders gather at the United Nations this week, said the top U.S. diplomat, who also said that Russia hasn’t been helpful to U.S. foreign policy objectives.
Newsmax (News)