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.
The GOP’s self-proclaimed “pragmatists” could soon have the most power in Congress—if they choose to use it.
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.
Energy policy should be taken "out of the hands of Washington, D.C.," Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Monday.
Former President Donald Trump has filed a $49 million lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward, along with book publisher Simon & Schuster, for allegedly selling unapproved audio tapes of Trump interviews.
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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…
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…
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson asked the court to reconsider its ruling striking down the six-week abortion ban. Wilson filed a rehearing request with the Supreme Court.
Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.
As has so often been the case in recent media political forecasting, new Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is proving predictions of weakness and failure in his leading the small House majority to be off the mark.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has convened a new grand jury to probe the payment to Stormy Daniels, part of a long-running probe that had previously seemed dormant for many months, people with knowledge of the investigation confirmed.
The fight over nationwide abortion rights is only just beginning.
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey unveiled Monday a $282 million supplemental spending plan that includes $85 million for emergency assistance, including housing.
John R. Allen, a retired four-star Marine general who was the president of the Brookings Institution, had been accused of secretly lobbying for the government of Qatar.
They boosted mRNA tech at the expense of J&J’s shot, which provides more durable immunity.
A 2011 mass shooting left Gabrielle Giffords, then a Democratic congresswoman, partly paralyzed and unable to speak fluently. She has since built a powerful advocacy group.
Alzheimer’s disease runs in my family. My mother and uncle both died of from it, so I have intimately witnessed the worst that the disease…
Ronna McDaniel beat back an effort by lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to win an unprecedented fourth straight term as chair of the Republican National Committee and told Newsmax on Monday night she is looking forward to working with Dhillon to make the par…
Waffle House is certainly great, but southeastern Wisconsin will do just fine so long as it still has George Webb.
Weeks after Tyre Nichols was brutalized by Memphis police officers, city law enforcement officials are being hailed for their unusually rapid investigation and transparency compared to similar cases in other US cities.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told "Prime News" on Monday that DirecTV dropped Newsmax because some people simply can't tolerate opposing views.
President Biden’s Baltimore visit came as the administration is beginning to distribute billions of federal dollars to upgrade aging infrastructure.
The Republican Party in Santos’s Long Island district wants him out. The speaker has other ideas.
The administration of President Joe Biden is expanding contraception coverage under Obamacare by removing the "moral exemptions" enacted during the term of former President Donald Trump, The Hill reported Monday.
As protesters prepare for this year’s March for Life, a current of uncertainty ripples beneath the surface.
President Biden challenged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his position on the federal debt ceiling, saying, "Show me your budget and I'll show you mine."
“It’s important for them to be here in the gallery that night to listen to the president,” said the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, who invited them.
If the debt limit is breached, investors expect Treasury to put bond payments first. It’d be politically and practically fraught.
Sens. Tim Scott and Cory Booker remain committed to negotiating for police reform following the death of Tyre Nichols, but hopes of a bill approved in both chambers are slim.
By year-end, about half of the states will have cut rates on income within three years.
Columbia, South Carolina - Former President Donald Trump did something unusual here in South Carolina Saturday night. He held a small event, or at least a relatively small event. Trump is known for holding massive rallies, with 8,000, 10,000, 15,0…
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
The move will restructure the federal government’s response to the pandemic nearly three years after the virus first arrived in the United States.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The secretary of state and the Israeli leader had a ‘candid’ conversation amid deepening rifts over the Palestinians, Ukraine and a rightward shift by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The end of the emergency, planned for May 11, will bring about a complex set of policy changes and signals a new chapter in the government’s pandemic response.
Trump is criticizing the Florida governor for closing down his state during the pandemic, though it pursued an ambitious reopening — and earned his praise at the time.
Mixing aesthetics and activism does a disservice to both.
Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, has no doubts that DirecTV's purging of Newsmax from its channel lineup aligns with the left's long-term strategy of silencing conservative voices within the media landscape.
A North Dakota bill would require public schools to screen videos on fetal development as part of the state's K-12 life science curriculum.
The replacement of a 150-year-old rail tunnel is one of two projects the president is touting this week as benefits of the bipartisan infrastructure law.
School closings put strain on families and students alike.
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.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he finds the deplatforming of Newsmax "very concerning" and promised that Congress would hold into hearings about the matter soon.Appearing on Newsmax's Spicer & Co., the Speaker told hosts Sean Spicer an…
Participation in traditional houses of worship is in decline, but innovation and growth are happening elsewhere.
The film does not lie. What happened to a young black man in Memphis, pulled over for reckless driving - an arrest with no evidence, pepper sprayed until he fled, run down, then brutally beaten by five black police officers - leading to his death …
Representative Cory Mills, a Florida Republican, gave the grenades as gifts to colleagues in the House, drawing mixed reactions from fellow freshmen.
The United States needs to "prepare for the worst" with China if it decides to invade Taiwan, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., told Newsmax on Monday.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point continues to impose COVID-19 mandates regarding unvaccinated students not being able to travel.
Faddish forms of self-identification often reflect subjective feelings that shift over time. Let’s stop treating them as sacred truths.
Newly-released footage should quash speculation about the assault. But the Pelosi episode shows how many on the right are all too easer to spread innuendo and debunked claims.
Ex-President Donald Trump's bid to keep Ron DeSantis out of the 2024 White House race reveals as much about his own mindset and the challenges his campaign faces as it does about Florida's fast-rising Republican governor.
President Biden is focused on selling his legislative accomplishments after the new House Republican majority had vowed to block his agenda for the remainder of his term.
Political activist and lobbyist Matt Schlapp praised on Newsmax that in his bid for House speaker, Kevin McCarthy's agreement to concessions from members of the House Freedom Caucus was politically savvy and strengthened his position.
The problems with wind turbines range from malfunction to collapse.
A pro-life father is acquitted on charges that he interfered with abortion access.
Two years into Biden’s presidency, Democrats are now willing to admit that the vice president has been ‘underwhelming’ in her role.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Aftab Pureval’s bizarre pregame insult of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes probably didn’t end the Bengals’ Super Bowl chances. But it was stupid regardless.
Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.
District Attorney Fani Willis says charging decisions are "imminent." Here's what could be on the table for Trump — or his allies.
Does the President know that legislation has to pass the House to become law?
Kevin McCarthy finally has the job he always wanted. What did he sacrifice to get it?
The goal is to replace democratic capitalism with authoritarian socialism.
The president’s current posture on the issue has a history.
A new poll shows that almost three-quarters of voters regard President Biden's handling of classified records to be a scandal. That includes a majority of Democrats.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
For music lovers, vinyl brings many joys.
Journalists shouldn’t choose between neutrality (usually feigned) and certitude (usually priggish).
A bill that would require Medicaid recipients to work has passed the South Dakota House's Republican-dominated State Affairs Committee.
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has asked Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate potential campaign violations involving the disclosure of voter signatures.
RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the parents of Tyre Nichols, and Brandon Tsay, who disarmed a mass shooter, have been invited to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address next month.
The night before the start of a humiliating and historic five-day floor fight in Rep. Kevin McCarthy's quest to become speaker, Rep. Matt Gaetz, McCarthy's chief tormentor, handed him a list of demands from a hard-right faction ensuring that if Mc…
The International Monetary Fund said the world economy was poised for a rebound as inflation eases.
A federal judge blocks a law that punishes doctors for ‘misinformation.’
An NBC News poll has a remarkable find.
A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation.
Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption.
Omar faces potential ouster from the House Foreign Relations Committee, a punishment that is inextricable from her religion.
The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.
The deadline for the Republican leader to cut a deal or quit the speaker’s race is fast approaching.
The Memphis officers almost certainly would have behaved differently had Nichols been white.
President Biden said Monday that his administration will end twin emergencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, more than three years after they were enacted.
Promising new drugs are in the pipeline, but the disease evades a cure.
The Cold War–era diplomat’s letters to Bill Clinton’s deputy secretary of state were prescient on matters involving NATO, Ukraine, and Russia.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., criticized Democrats for blocking his 2020 police reform bill while also calling for widespread changes to law enforcement.
The flush savings accounts and cheap credit that helped keep Americans spending at high rates since 2020 are disappearing, while inflation remains elevated.
In interviews, more than a dozen Democratic leaders and activists expressed misgivings about Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic Party.
From the Justice Department to Hunter Biden to the coronavirus, the Republican majority is casting a wide net. It all begins this week.
San Antonio votes to permit eminent domain against a bar owner.
Officials who have worked with Democratic and Republican presidents describe an elaborate system for classified documents but a more casual one for everyday records.
The president hopes to cut many ribbons throughout the next two years.
Trumpeting your wokeness—or anti-wokeness—won’t do anything to fix society’s problems.
Mississippi senators are pushing a bill that specifies that lawmakers must meet in public, prohibiting closed-door meetings. These meetings discuss legislative strategy and policy.
New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner Patrick O'Connell voluntarily recused himself from decisions on a major energy merger over past conflicts of interest.