Reforming the Police: Where the Right and Left Agree and Disagree
July 1, 2020
Americans are no strangers to such congressional deadlock, but the sides are hardly as fundamentally opposed as this deadlock might suggest. There is genuine agreement, at large, that police oversight needs to be strengthened, that body and dashboard cameras need to become more widespread, and that reporting on the use of violence within the police needs to be more transparent. Democratic and Republican lawmakers even find themselves similarly opposed to the idea of “defunding” the police. So while discord dominates the headlines, we thought it is worth highlighting where both sides agree and disagree, shining a light potentially on a future trajectory for policy.
Did Lockdowns Work? Where the Right and Left Agree and Disagree
June 22, 2020
With states at all different levels of reopening and cases rising in many reopened states in recent days, the value of lockdowns as a policy tool is more critical than ever. Is there ample evidence that lockdowns work, or enough at least to justify new rounds of closures if needed? Did the lockdowns prevent negative outcomes or merely delay them? Here we investigate where the left and right agree as well as where they disagree and why.
Woman Journalists Are the Most Credible Voices on Covid-19
June 15, 2020
In a sample of nearly 40,000 articles about Covid-19, The Factual’s data suggests that women journalists are more credible on average than men — and that they dominate the list of the top 100 most credible journalists. When zooming out to a sample of all articles, not just those related to Covid-19, there remains a slight edge for women journalists in terms of average credibility, and they continue to be overrepresented among the most credible journalists.