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Mar 26 2021
News
Dominion Voting Files $1.6B Lawsuit against Fox News
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, accusing the cable news outlet of falsely claiming that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election in order to bolster the station’s ratings.
The suit, which is the first the voting company has filed against a media company over pervasive false claims that arose after the election, including
National Review (News)Jun 24 2022
News
America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for
The AtlanticFeb 13 2020
Opinion
Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist
Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils of “socialism.” When Medicare was first proposed, Ronald Reagan called it “socialized medicine,” and he declared that it would destroy our freedom. These days, if you call for something like universal child care, conservatives accuse you of wanting to turn America into the Soviet
Paul KrugmanSep 21 2023
Headline Roundup
US Offers Legal Status to Nearly 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants
Amid a continued surge in southern border crossings, the Biden administration is granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country, making them eligible to work.
The Details: The program will maintain a temporary protection designation for 242,700 Venezuelans already in the U.S., including people here illegally. Roughly 472,000 more
Associated Press BBC News Fox News (Online News)Mar 10 2022
Perspectives Blog
High U.S. Energy Costs Worsen Amid Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Already-high energy costs in the U.S. are rising more as the global economy responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil, natural gas and coal. The import ban had already gained bipartisan support before Biden's announcement. Roughly 3% of the oil barrels the U.S. imported in 2021 came from Russia, ranking
AllSides StaffSep 14 2019
News
Trump Executive Order Banning A Cryptocurrency Could Mutate Into Far-Reaching Law
There are at least 20 bills related to blockchain in various stages of being considered by the United States Congress, but only one is of imminent, potentially urgent concern to cryptocurrency users, according to Jason Brett, founder and CEO of the Value Technology Foundation, a newly formed research firm in Washington, D.C., dedicated to blockchain law.
Senate bill 1025, which could be
ForbesJun 13 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Latin America Doesn’t Want Us Anymore
From the CenterWe talked last week about how a resurgent American isolationism could be harmful to our interests in Ukraine and in China. This week, voters’ growing disinterest in events beyond our borders is causing problems closer to home. When the three-day Summit of the Americas gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders concluded on Friday, the sense that the United States was rapidly
Dan SchnurSep 23 2022
Perspectives Blog
Migrant Busing Adds New Dimension to Border Crisis
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As the number of migrants arriving at the southern border hits all-time highs, Republican governors are making waves by sending groups of unauthorized migrants to liberal sanctuary cities in the north.
Florida Gov. Ron
AllSides StaffMar 01 2019
News
Back home from Hanoi, Trump faces more political headwinds
President Donald Trump embarked on his trip to Vietnam with a political cloud hanging over his head and keen to show progress on a thorny foreign policy issue that has befuddled many of his predecessors.
Now, he is just back from a Hanoi summit with North Korea that collapsed and the cloud has grown darker.
While Trump’s much-hyped meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un broke up
ReutersJun 04 2019
News
Trump admin imposes new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships
(CNN)The US announced major new restrictions on US citizens traveling to Cuba on Tuesday, blocking the most common way Americans are able to visit the island -- through organized tour groups that license US citizens to travel automatically -- and banning US cruise ships from stopping in the country.
American tourism is not explicitly permitted in Cuba. However, Americans can travel to
CNN (Online News)