LibGuides: Welcome to Urban's Library!: Current Events

Tips for staying informed

Bias in the media is inherent but you need to be aware of it and be careful for hidden bias. More here.
Tools for evaluating sources: Trust your gut, try lateral reading, and of course use your CRAAP detector.
Use Gound.news to see a story from multiple sides

ACLU explains Project 2025
"Learn more about the Heritage Project initiative that threatens to erode our democracy — and how to fight it."
Will Trump enact Project 2025? Here’s what’s in it.
Washington Post Article: "Project 2025 calls for rightward shifts on many aspects of Americans’ lives, and at least some of it is expected to come to fruition in a second Trump administration."
NYTimes article on Trump's Agenda47 and Project2025
Looks at the similarities and differences of the two, and why Trump distanced himself from Project2025.
Project 2025
"The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era."

Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Council on Foreign Relations overs background as well as recent developments on the conflict. It is updated regularily.

Center for Reproductive Rights
Offers information on U.S. and global reproductive rights issues.

Civil War in Sudan
Th Council on Foreign Relations offers background and recent developments on the civil war in Sudan.