Reality is a social construct. Today we have two divergent, almost contradictory realities in America, and the country is roughly evenly split between them.
This is because we tend to get trapped in a filter bubble where we simply don't see the news that the other half is focused on. We consume our news only from partisan outlets that echo and re-affirm our worldview.
The result is that each half of the population believes that the other half is crazy/stupid/intolerant. This is unhealthy, even dangerous.
This site is an attempt to intermingle daily news stories from both sides of the aisle so you can see what the other half of the country is seeing.
Mere legalization of euthanasia is never enough.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first tragedy of culture war.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday that a government shutdown could have negative effects on various programs for small businesses and children.
Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday remained mum on the potential enforcement of a policy that would cap carbon emissions and charge manufacturers money based thereon.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online, examining laws passed in Florida and Texas.
Congress is racing against the clock to avoid a federal government shutdown ahead of an Oct. 1 deadline.
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general in the Trump administration, told Newsmax on Friday that the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his family's business dealings "is about connecting the dots."
Bracing for a likely government shutdown on Sunday, House Republicans are seeking to ensure that Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are paid in the event a shutdown occurs...
The second GOP primary debate made Trump’s 2024 advantage clearer than ever.
How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump
Should he care? Its supporters will vote for him anyway.
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Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
A study of U.S. manufacturing decline shows the risks of too-costly union contracts.
Remember back in June, when some nut claimed it made more sense for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run as an independent than as a Democrat?
She achieved remarkable political breakthroughs as a woman, becoming San Francisco’s first female mayor and the first woman elected to the Senate from California.
Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.
Retailers placing goods on open display is an everyday miracle that could turn into a perk of the privileged
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Our Democratic colleagues propose requiring court approval to examine data on a U.S. person. That would end up diminishing, not protecting, privacy.
New York City tells citizens to get equipped with overdose medication.
In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.
The other Republican presidential candidates largely left the front-runner off the hook.
Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete.
The G.O.P. speaker, whose style is to placate his detractors, did not have the Republican votes to keep the government open. He called the vote anyway.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
The former president is the clear front-runner, but three-quarters of GOP voters say they’re at least considering voting for someone else.
The former president has been publicly pushing a shutdown, but his views are shaped by his own handling of the 2018 shutdown.
At least four names have been floated regarding a possible appointment to fill the remaining term of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. The New York Times reported Friday that Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom will select someone to fill…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s long-shot attempt to avert a government shutdown failed, with opposition coming both from House Democrats and from hard-right members of his own party.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is criticizing a decision by the National Parks Service which announced it will close a majority of its parks in the event of a shutdown.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has set two key parameters for his appointment. Here’s who could fit them.
An individualistic focus only goes so far in preventing scams and frauds.
This was not an auspicious start for the House Republicans' attempt to show that Joe Biden needs to be removed from office.
The four-star Air Force fighter pilot took over from Gen. Mark A. Milley as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The possibility of China's Communist government using the treasure trove of data gathered from the Chinese-owned app TikTok against the United States in a world conflict is "absolutely terrifying," a witness told a Senate committee Wednesday. Sen.…
The memo from a key group that ran millions of dollars in ads opposing Trump suggests very little works. Other groups’ actions suggest they agree.
GOP candidates need to tend to the needs of their family-the party's voting base.
Those who criticize Antifa, in their millions, should deny Marriott their business.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
On the 85th anniversary of his death, a look back at the legacy of Nikolai Kondratiev and its implications for the coming age of GenAI.
By now you're likely aware that Hunter Biden listed his father's Delaware home as the 'beneficiary address' in the process of receiving two wire transfers, totally more than $250,000, from Beijing in 2019.
The Guild's agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
He ran as a short-term fix but has become a long-term proposition.
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“I can’t overstate my level of concern about the damage this would do.”
Many of us are simply tired of living in a society that gaslights citizens with officially sanctioned lies like ‘trans women are women‘
If you hold your breath waiting for him to propose anything that isn’t orthodox Democratic Party thinking, you won’t live very long.
The Palestinians have literally paved over this important historic site.
Since the dawn of our species, the evolution of two distinct sexes has been fundamental to human reproduction. There is no such thing as a ‘sex spectrum.’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has set two key parameters for his appointment. Here’s who could fit them.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's seat on the powerful Judiciary Committee is now empty in the wake of her death and, if left unfilled, could slow the confirmation of many of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees...
The EU can’t afford the subsidies that the U.S. can, and it has more free-market scruples.
The Biden administration's plan to hold just three offshore oil and gas lease through 2029 was blasted by Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists and the fossil fuel industry.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as GOP holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.The most conservative party members refused …
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the legality of Republican-backed state laws in Texas and Florida that constrain the ability of social media companies to curb content on their platforms that these businesses deem objectionable.The jus…
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser on Friday refused to disclose the names of peers examining the potential impeachment of Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
And we’ll need a sober, competent, fiscally conservative administration to get the country through this potential disaster.
An Interview with Saul Bellow’s biographer Zachary Leader.
Kennedy’s bid seems less a threat to Biden than another obstacle in Trump’s path back to the White House.
His trimming looks weak next to Nikki Haley’s conviction on the GOP debate stage.
A top former aide to Vice President Biden revealed to Hunter Biden that his CCP-linked business partner was willing to wire money to help him pay off several bills, according to WhatsApp messages.
New research suggests that big shifts in consumer and company behavior — and maybe federal stimulus dollars — have fueled entrepreneurship.
Arizona and Utah will keep iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona's orange-striped Grand Canyon and the sheer red cliffs of Utah's Zion Valley.M
Colton Moore, a state senator, had pressured his G.O.P. colleagues to support his effort to investigate the district attorney prosecuting Donald J. Trump.
House Democratic Leader Jeffries did not rule out making an end-run around Speaker McCarthy to avert a government shutdown.
Voters don’t miss Trump, but they miss 2019, and they worry about crime, immigration and inflation.
The price of Girl Scout cookies in some areas are increasing because of inflation. The Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson (GSHH) in New York emailed troop parents and other community members to say that all cookies will be sold for $6 per box this co…
It's expected that California Gov. Gavin Newsom will name a successor in no more than a week for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died Friday.
The memo from a key group that ran millions of dollars in ads opposing Trump suggests very little works. Other groups’ actions suggest they agree.
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
The Washington Post recorded how Republicans and Democrats voted on a short-term government funding bill.
Opponents of wokeness sometimes say that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” But the federal judiciary does.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been focused on passing long-term spending bills, hoping it will shake loose some support for a short-term plan to avert a government shutdown.
The network, the American Opportunity Alliance, will meet in Dallas, as its biggest donors weigh whether investing in any non-Trump candidate remains a worthwhile investment.
If the restoration of nominating conventions leads to parties selecting candidates who aren’t despised by a majority of voters, it will strengthen democracy.
Republicans senators are clashing over adding border security provisions in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government.
GOP candidates need to tend to the needs of their family—the party’s voting base.
Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott tore into the “Chaos Caucus" of the House GOP that are holding up the stopgap funding CR that would avoid a government shutdown.
Iowa's restrictions on sexually explicit reading material have led some "Little Free Libraries" to post disclaimers noting that they aren't funded by school districts.
Voters deserve far better than the decrepit Democrats and Republicans.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to pick a Black woman to fill the seat, but has also said he would not choose any of the current Democrats running for Senate.
One lesson of Dianne Feinstein’s career: Stay in your job too long, and you risk losing control of the finale.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo ignores that the slave trade had willing agents on both sides.
As her partisan colleagues grew ever more revolutionary, they came to regard her staid attachment to standards as retrograde.
Eight years later, we’re still doing this?
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship by tech platforms, violate the First Amendment.
As a shutdown looms, the House GOP is bickering over legislation that doesn’t even matter.
The president is simply withering away before our eyes, as though he drank from the wrong grail at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Dr. John Clauser is an experimental physicist of the highest order.His 2022 Nobel Prize in physics is enough to make him one of the preeminent scientists of our times. His work confirmed the existenc
Is Trump really as invulnerable as he appears?
The administration had been hesitant to pursue this approach.
Prior to this report, Biden’s State Department had not addressed the app’s ties to the Chinese government.
A split field and a very MAGA primary electorate have vindicated Trump's decision not to participate.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…