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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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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Wikipedia. It tends to have excellent, neutral explanations of ongoing political stories.

As a plus, every article is written to be a complete picture (at low resolution) and so you don’t have to deal with the way regular news articles lack orienting stuff if they’re an “update on the situation” article.

Like if you haven’t been following something, wikipedia articles are written in a way that brings you up to speed from zero.