AllSides Balanced Search

Despite woes like the coronavirus and Brexit, the European Union looks to expand its values and influence in the Balkans.

If you tally what ails the European Union – coronavirus lockdowns, looming recession, resurgent nationalism, Brexit – it is amazing the EU still holds together as a “home” for 27 nations with shared values. Yet this week, the union’s leaders are expected to approve

Changes to immigration law are a harder sell to voters than gun control legislation and the road to a consensus could be far bumpier than the narrative on Capitol Hill suggests.

The mills of justice grind slowly, but life plunges on, leaving lives blighted when justice, by being delayed, is irremediably denied. Fortunately, California’s supreme court might soon decide to hear — four years after litigation began — the 21st century’s most portentous civil-rights case, which concerns an ongoing denial of equal protection of the law.

With Joe Biden on the debate stage Wednesday night, the other Democratic primary candidates will have another chance to criticize elements of his long political record. But Biden’s presence — and his wholehearted embrace of his time as second-in-command during the “Obama-Biden administration” — also creates an opportunity for his rivals to take on President Obama’s legacy, particularly on