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Aug 13 2021
Perspectives Blog
When We Decide Whether (or How) To Take On Climate Change
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This week it was the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s turn. The U.N.’s experts published an alarming report calling climate change a “code red for humanity” that is already being felt across the world and will only continue to accelerate. That’s very scary stuff.
It was so frightening that
Dan Schnur
Feb 27 2020
News
Bernie Sanders: 18 things the Democratic front-runner believes
Bernie Sanders is the national frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Vermont senator has promised a political revolution, but what does that mean? What does he actually stand for?
1. He's a democratic socialist - Sanders is a self-described "democratic socialist", but in his long political career he became comfortable with just "socialist" ("I am a socialist and
BBC News
Oct 18 2014
News
Supreme Court's 2014 term off to a stealthy start
The Supreme Court opened its 2014 term this month with major actions on same-sex marriage, voting rights and abortion — all handled in private, without explanation or even a breakdown of how the various justices voted.
No oral arguments were held. The two sides in each dispute submitted lengthy briefs summing up their arguments, but when it came time to rule, the justices did not return
USA TODAY
Oct 25 2022
Headline Roundup
DeSantis, Crist Hold Debate in Florida Governor's Race
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and challenger Charlie Crist (D) held their lone debate Monday night in Florida's 2022 gubernatorial race, and gave their views on abortion, immigration, transgender issues, and more, while also trading criticisms.
Key Quotes: On abortion, DeSantis said he would "like to see everybody have a shot." Crist said he wants to "keep a woman’s right to choose
Florida Politics
NBC News (Online)
Fox News (Online News) 
Sep 10 2022
Headline Roundup
As Midterms Near, Parties Craft Dueling Narratives For Election Season
2022 Election Day is growing closer, and what was once expected to be an overwhelming victory for the Republican Party now appears to be a more even matchup. As party leaders continue to push dueling national narratives, media speculators are working hard to determine not only who voters will cast ballots for, but for which issues they will journey to the polls.
The Democratic Party,
Washington Post
The Hill
The Daily Caller
Feb 16 2020
Opinion
Evidence That Conservative Students Really Do Self-Censor
I’ve argued before that campus speech is threatened from a dozen directions, citing scores of incidents that undermine the culture of free expression and dialogue needed to seek truth and learn.
The academic Jeffrey Adam Sachs has staked out a contrasting position at the Niskanen Center. A small number of anecdotes “have been permitted to set the terms of public debate,” he once wrote.
The Atlantic
Apr 26 2013
News
Obama: Planned Parenthood isn't going anywhere, America
Some righties took it as a sign that he was running scared from the Gosnell trial when he “canceled his speech to PP scheduled for last night. Cmon: You should know him better than that by now. He didnt cancel, he just postponed it until this morning so that he could visit West, Texas, yesterday to speak about the disaster there. The most pro-abortion president in American history wasnt about
HotAir
Apr 11 2016
Background
Is the ACLU Good for America?
Since its creation on Jan. 19, 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has often been at the center of controversy and public debate. They have taken on issues ranging from abortion, the death penalty, and immigration to religious displays, drug policy, and the war on terror. In fact, the ACLU has appeared before the US Supreme Court more times than anyone except the US Department of
ProCon.org
May 10 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden HHS Restores Trans Health Protections in Reversal of Trump Policy
The Biden administration will reverse Trump-era rules excluding transgender people from the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination protections, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. Specifically, HHS will interpret Section 1557 of the ACA, which prevents healthcare discrimination on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability,” to include
NPR (Online News)
Fox News (Online News)
LGBTQ Nation
May 29 2012
News
Catholics’ mandate suit draws dividing line for Obama
Three years ago, President Obama gave the University of Notre Dames commencement address, pleading for common ground with Catholics on thorny issues and vowing to seek a “sensible conscience clause for doctors and nurses who oppose abortion out of religious objections.
Since then, however, relations have fizzled, to the point that Notre Dame and dozens of other Catholic institutions
Washington Times