Where can I read unbiased political summaries?

Everyone source has biases. Some are more biased than others, but it's still important to keep in mind that bias is always there and to make sure you know ahead of time what the bias is. I'd say it's more important to read from a variety of sources, keeping their flaws in mind, than to pick what is perceived to be the most unbiased.

Christian Science Monitor is (or, at least, used to be) a surprisingly good source. I haven't read it in a few years, however.

Foreign media outlets tend to have different biases than American ones. I would definitely recommend adding BBC, Deutsche Welle, and Al Jazeera to your rounds to get a different perspective on things and get better at spotting other sources' biases.

There's also the wire services -- AP, Reuters, and AFP. Most other news sources pick up their stories from them. While they typically won't give you a huge amount of background information, if all you want is the facts, they're generally reliable.

Most of these won't give you political summaries, per se, but if you make a habit of reading them regularly, you should be able to pick up on the issues.

 

Being bias is just human nature.

 

All news coverage is inevitably biased, even if just a tiny bit, because let's be honest, it's humans writing the stories, and try as we might, we're all a bit biased one way or the other. The best one I can think of is probably Politico. The BBC is a good source for international news, as is the CBC if you want to get the perspective of our neighbors to the north. The New York Times and the Washington Post, though both newspapers, are very well respected publications. Real Clear Politics compiles stories and opinion pieces from all across the web and the political spectrum, so that can be a good website if you want to see what different sides of the aisle are saying about certain issues.

 

Yeah everyone is biased.

I recommend reading one fairly middle of the road source, and one from each extreme.. then you can kind of see what remains consistent throughout and what has been tinted by the different biases.

 

The best thing to do is read a lot of perspectives on the same thing. That's really the only way to get all the information.

 

As a political news junkie, POLITICO.com, CNN.com, and The Washington Post are very good sites for politics I think. If you ever want specific information on bills in Congress, check out Thomas.gov or Congress.gov.

But as someone already mentioned, reading different viewpoints is best (though, I'd suggest staying away from Fox) because every journalist/writer is at least slightly biased. It's impossible to be completely bipartisan in politics.

 

There are no such summaries. All politics is biased, no matter how hard the writer may try to not be.

 

Left or Right, everyone believes they are close to the Center.