The problem of course is that not every issue needs a "both sides" treatment. Another point is that there aren't "two sides" to political issues but a wide var

The problem of course is that not every issue needs a "both sides" treatment. Another point is that there aren't "two sides" to political issues but a wide variety of sides and that often, when you pick the two supposed sides of an issue, you've actually picked the answer - without, say, having to have an argument for this answer. Unpopular note: HN has had too many of these garbage articles leveraging this vacuous and manipulative "two sides" rhetoric - "Ivy League" article but several others. And these have had an actually pretty strong center-right bias and just generally detract from the site imo.