Allsides aims to expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other.
From its website: AllSides strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
Factcheck.org is nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, Intelligence Squared U.S. addresses a fundamental problem in America: the extreme polarization of our nation and our politics. Its mission is to restore critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to American public discourse.
ProCon.org has been part of the Britannica Group of companies since May 2020. Britannica’s flagship publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica—is revered for its nonpartisan, expert-based, fact-checked content, which is why its mission and that of the Britannica Group of educational resources in general align so well with the mission of ProCon.org.
From its website: Our Mission is “To promote civility, critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to debatable issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way.”
The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) is a global network of organizations that value debate as a way to give young people a voice, with entities in the Netherlands, USA, UK, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia.
St. Ambrose University Library has published this guide on popular topics with authoritative sources to help students gather excellent information for their papers and projects.