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The US stayed out of World War I for three years. Then a secret German telegram in 1917 changed everything

During World War I, a clandestine German telegram sparked a controversial proposal for Mexico to launch an attack on the United States. British intelligence successfully intercepted and decoded this crucial message, revealing offers to regain lost territories. The confirmation of the telegram's authenticity by Germany swayed public opinion in America…

The Economic Times

Trump Ranks Every President—and Somehow Declares Himself the Greatest of Them All

Trump has ranked America's presidents and placed himself above Washington, Lincoln and FDR, while leaving Reagan, Kennedy, Eisenhower and 8 others off his list.

International Business Times UK

Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.' Life lessons from motivational quote on self-belief, confidence, power, unexpected success, ambition, hidden competence, human nature and unpredictability

Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt is, “Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.” The quote looks at confidence, ambition, risk and human behaviour. It suggests that a person with too much confidence may still create results because they are willing to take risks. The saying also explains…

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From free speech to religion and press - US courts find Trump admin violated rights in 75 rulings

Federal judges have ruled against Donald Trump’s second-term administration in 75 First Amendment cases, finding that it infringed speech, religion and press freedoms despite his pledge to end 'government censorship'.

The Times of India

Ginsburg and Biden’s blind spot: when leaders don’t know when to leave

George Washington believed it too, then walked away twice. Ginsburg and Biden believed it, and didn't.

Fortune

The 200-word telegram that pulled America into World War I

In January 1917, the United States had spent nearly three years watching Europe tear itself apart and most Americans were fine with that. President Woodrow Wilson had just won reelection on the quiet promise that he had kept the country out of the war. The public largely backed him. Crossing…

The Times of India

Versailles II: Trump signs Iran deal in the one place historians wouldn't recommend

TOI correspondent from Washington : The Art of the Deal met the ghost of Versailles. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a controversial MoU committing, among other things, Washington to help finance Iran's reconstruction to the tune of $300 billion. He signed the document in the same place that…

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Quote of the Day by Bernard M. Baruch: ‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter…’ - The Jewish advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the exhausting urge to be liked by everyone

Quote of the Day by Bernard M. Baruch, "Be who you are and say what you feel," encourages authenticity over the exhausting need for universal approval. This timeless advice grants permission to speak honestly and exist without fear of judgment.

The Economic Times

The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter

New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history

The Guardian - US

The king’s state visit was a success – but there is still a chasm to bridge between UK and US outlooks

As King Charles concludes his transatlantic travels with a visit to Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, he can take pride in a job well done. His four-day state visit to the US – which concluded with a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery and a block party in Virginia – appears…

The Conversation

I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him

The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?

The Guardian - US

Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard — A Year Later, Unemployment Is Up

Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class.

Capital & Main

1914 Ludlow Massacre took lives of 25 miners and family members during bitter strike for fair wages and conditions

On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special.

The Conversation

Clarence Thomas attacks progressivism

In a speech celebrating America's 250th, the Supreme Court justice gave a dishonest and dangerous read of history

Salon

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How Trump’s dyslexia slurs perpetuate myths about the learning disability

Trump disparaging the California governor’s dyslexia impacted the nation

Reason

When the U.S. Censored a Movie About the American Revolution and Imprisoned Its Producer

Remembering the infuriating case of United States v. “The Spirit of ’76.”

The Conversation

US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white

Whiteness appears to be an official immigration credential in the eyes of the United States government.

The Conversation

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Is United States President Donald Trump lurching toward decline and fall? Will he and his MAGA movement reprise Lyndon B. Johnson’s story, when the quagmire of the Vietnam War took the Democratic president out of the 1968 election and gave Republican Richard Nixon the opening he needed to defeat the…

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Most People Know Their Faces, Not Their Words—10 Quotes From Presidents on U.S. Money

Monday, February 16, is Presidents’ Day. It is a day many Americans take off, and, honestly, not many of us take the time to reflect...

The Conversation

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order

Make Denmark angry. Make Norway angry. Make NATO’s leaders angry.

The Conversation

Congress’ power has been diminishing for years, leaving Trump to act with impunity

A year into US President Donald Trump’s second term, his record use of executive orders, impoundment of government spending, and military interventions in Venezuela and Iran have sparked criticisms from Democrats and even some Republicans. They say he is unconstitutionally sidelining Congress.

Reason

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1921 to 1933

Every President from 1921 to 1933 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.

Reason

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1901 to 1921

Every president from 1901 to 1921 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.

The Guardian - UK

Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war

Last week’s events in Caracas come in a long line of American interventions. The White House has awesome power and is never shy of using it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Reason

Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856

12/28/1856: President Woodrow Wilson's birthday. His administration would initiate the prosecutions under the Sedition Act that gave rise to Schenck… The post Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856 appeared first on Reason.com.

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