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Apr 25 2019
News
Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic nomination to challenge President Trump in 2020, marshaling his experience and global stature in a bid to lead a party increasingly defined by a younger generation that might be skeptical of his age and ideological moderation.
Mr. Biden, 76, is set to offer himself as a levelheaded leader for
New York Times (News)May 13 2020
Opinion
Why America’s Most Essential Workers Are So Poorly Treated
They’ve been systematically devalued for years. But they don’t have to be.
The workers who restock grocery shelves. The workers who aid the dying in hospice-care centers. The workers who pick strawberries and butcher chickens and cows. Who transport vital goods from port to store, and spirit away trash and recycling from homes and businesses. Who change the linens in hospitals, deliver
The AtlanticAug 01 2019
News
Debate Night II
In the second night of the Democratic primary debate, “the ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden’s candidacy.” (AP News)
The left argues that Booker did well, Biden cleared a low bar, and Harris did
The Flip SideJul 29 2022
Headline Roundup
Fed's Preferred Inflation Gauge Hits 40-Year High
The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index rose by 6.8% in the year through June, the fastest rate since 1982.
The PCE measures the prices that people in the United States pay for goods and services, and is the Federal Reserve's preferred gauge for price inflation. Core prices, which exclude the more volatile measurements of food and energy, rose 0.6% from the previous month and
New York Times (News) MarketWatch Fox BusinessJul 22 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren warns another financial crisis is coming -- but she has a plan
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said there are warning signs for another financial crisis that would devastate the United States -- "a single shock could bring it all down" -- and the 2020 presidential candidate proposed a plan she said could help prevent it.
"I warned about an economic crash years before the 2008 crisis, but the people in power wouldn't listen," Warren wrote in a
CNN DigitalJul 22 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren warns another financial crisis is coming -- but she has a plan
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said there are warning signs for another financial crisis that would devastate the United States -- "a single shock could bring it all down" -- and the 2020 presidential candidate proposed a plan she said could help prevent it.
"I warned about an economic crash years before the 2008 crisis, but the people in power wouldn't listen," Warren wrote in a
CNN DigitalMay 01 2016
News
The Last Great Republican Rupture
The showdown between Ford and Reagan at the deeply divided 1976 convention was a preview for today’s fractured GOP.
Nobody quite understood why he did it, but on the second night of the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, sitting in shirt sleeves with the New York delegation, mischievously grabbed a Ronald Reagan placard from a
Wall Street Journal (News)May 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
Live Blog: Daily Russia-Ukraine News Updates
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Below are updates on the latest news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Behind-the-scenes here at AllSides, we've been sharing our own quick list of latest developments, and decided we should share them with our readers to help you
AllSides StaffJan 06 2022
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: New NYC Mayor Eric Adams's Comments on 'Low-Skilled Workers'
Recently-sworn in New York City Mayor Eric Adams's comments about service industry workers and COVID-19 restrictions sparked debate across the spectrum.
In a Monday press conference, Adams argued that a return to normalcy and in-person work would benefit the service industry because most service workers lack the option to work from home amid COVID-19 and the skills to work office jobs
CNBC The Root ReasonJun 11 2019
News
With Most States Under One Party’s Control, America Grows More Divided
When J.B. Pritzker took over as the governor of Illinois this year, Democratic lawmakers, who had spent four years at an impasse with his Republican predecessor, vowed that their party’s new grip on the State Capitol would bring immediate change.
The pace has been startling. In recent months, Illinois legislators have moved sharply to the left, deeming abortion a fundamental right for
New York Times (News)