Perspectives Blog

First, a little celebration for our information revolution! We are excited to report that AllSides.com has seen massive traffic growth over the last several months, reaching more than 1 million monthly views this month. Next, a little bit of perspective whiplash. This week, we saw wildly...

As an Onion headline said, the whole nation could probably draw John Boehner's face from memory by now. But, get ready to see others faces in the headlines soon. Snippet from the Center Congress moves toward vote on budget deal , Politico “It’s obvious that we are now seeing the end of...

As you've probably noticed, the drama of a potential government shutdown and Obamacare's October launch has been heating up across the news. See how these interlinked topics are playing out from Left to Right here and here . And for clarifying facts, these articles may interest you: 8...

With the eyes of the world on Syria and the US, many headlines simply update us on what is happening at this moment (e.g., Kerry cites evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria; Obama asks congress to authorize military action). But we want to know more, and we're guessing you do too...

In addition to this week's top news stories , there has been a bit of a shake up in the news media world. Al Jazeera America, a new cable news channel whose parent company is based in Qatar, launched nationwide Tuesday on major cable networks like Comcast, DIRECTV and DISH Network, but...

This week we saw stories about Obama's Grand Bargain proposal and Republicans pressing the new FBI director on Benghazi , but the biggest story in politics at the moment is about new NSA program information . Yesterday, the Guardian broke a new story on documents provided by Snowden that...

Our latest blind bias survey (thank you everyone who participated - you can take our new bias survey here ) measured the bias of several different news sources and changed our official AllSides Bias Rating for a few of them. Here are the new ratings: The Wall Street Journal (news page...

Because the media paints our culture's view of what is true, it influences policy on everything from waging war to feeding our kids. That’s why we like to see thoughtful critiques on how the media works, from all sides of the political spectrum . You may be interested in a couple of...

With "hot political potato" stories like President Obama's inauguration speech and Hillary Clinton’s testimony at the Benghazi hearings, the contrast in coverage was even more pronounced than usual this week. Here are our top contrast picks for these two big stories: Benghazi stories From...