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What are some good places to start getting acquainted with American politics in as unbiased a manner as possible? (kbin.run)

submitted 4 months ago by all-knight-party@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What with the recent development in the supreme courts I'm feeling a necessity to do what I can with the time left, politically.

However, aside from the most rudimentary basic terms I am basically completely ignorant to all politics on a state and federal level, and while I'd love to sit here and self loathe for my idiocy of not learning before it was important I need to start catching up and figuring out what I should be voting on and why.

Of course I'm deathly afraid that indiscriminately googling will lead to me learning biased and compromised knowledge from sites that I don't even know are biased, ending up with a skewed and inaccurate understanding.

While I know I could still be led astray by you guys, I figured it better to ask somewhere like here than to just wander off into the internet, so can anybody help me and people like me to start getting equipped?

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Stop worrying about bias and start caring about reality. Judge every claim on the merit of the evidence presented for it. That's all there is to it, really.

[–] ggwithgg@feddit.nl 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are right, but know that it can be hard for someone to judge claims.

And to answer OP: I'd say try to read qualitative, well established newspapers. They often have various overview articles and if you read articles from a couple of them then you should get a diverse view

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

In general, this is great advice. But have you seen the dreck that comes out of the nyt lately?

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