'Covid taught us a lot for future pandemics. Attacking Fauci doesn't make us safer.'
Dr. Ashish K. Jha at USA Today
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'What exactly did Justice Alito say that was wrong?'
Marc O. DeGirolami at The New York Times
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito "has been widely criticized this week for remarks he made," but "none of his remarks was improper for a judge to make," says Marc O. DeGirolami. Alito "assented ... that it is important to win 'the moral argument' and 'return our country to a place of godliness,'" but he "did not mention any pending case or litigation," and his views "are not so extreme as to merit denunciation" from the public.
'Some readers think bias taints our news report. They're right.'
Stephen Buckley at The Dallas Morning News
Reporters at The Dallas Morning News "do get all sides of the story. They just don't do it consistently," says Stephen Buckley. Reporters "are consciously unfair," and "when we interview sources with whom we might be sympathetic, we are not as quick to dig for other, opposing voices. We are selective about weaving in voices from all sides." While "conservative voices are frequently missing," they themselves "are at times to blame, as they don't want to be quoted in The News."
'It's time to finally pass the DREAM Act'
Janine Joseph at Newsweek
The DREAM Act has been introduced in Congress a "dizzying 10 plus times since" DACA passed, says Janine Joseph, and "something must give." Americans "must demand that our representatives support legislation that paves a more expansive and humane path toward citizenship for the estimated 11 million Americans living without legal status." It is "more than about time to pass the DREAM Act," especially since "at this point, the eldest DACA recipients are in their early 40s."
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Memo signals Trump review of 233k refugeesSpeed Read The memo also ordered all green card applications for the refugees to be halted
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