Augusta provides an unexpected oasis amid the Trump maelstrom In this corner of Georgia you notice Donald Trump mostly by his conspicuous absence from the conversation The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2025
‘There’s quite a similarity’: US civil rights pioneers warn of ‘surge backwards’ under Trump They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for The Guardian - US · Mar 2, 2025
Deportation fears create ripple effects for immigrants and their communities The Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without permission is falling far short of its initial goals in its first few weeks. The Conversation · Feb 19, 2025
Presidents at War: how battle has shaped American leaders A new book looks back in history to see how presidents including Reagan and Eisenhower were affected by war The Guardian - US · Feb 18, 2025
Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook. The Texas Tribune · Feb 12, 2025
Why Dwight was right about corporate greed Letters: The prophetic words of an American president are remembered by Frank Keightley, while Jules Stewart reckons American greatness has nothing to do with the present White House incumbent The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025
Warning of ‘oligarchy,’ Biden channels Andrew Jackson In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection. President Joe Biden’s, delivered five days before he left office, began that way, with a celebration of America’s promise and of its progress under his tenure. The Conversation · Jan 22, 2025
How Allied photos revealed true horrors of the Nazi death camps Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention. Radio France Internationale · Jan 19, 2025
Biden's unprecedented farewell warning Joe Biden breaks with tradition to offer a direct criticism of his successor Salon · Jan 17, 2025
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy provides in-house science advice for the president Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges that reach the president’s desk. The Conversation · Jan 16, 2025
Biden’s attack on tech power and wealth recalls fears of the military industrial complex Analysis: Biden’s dark speech evokes another president’s warning The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2025
Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in farewell presidential address Biden attacks ‘tech industrial complex’ as he closes a half-century in public life with Oval Office speech The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2025
Trump wants to purchase Greenland. How would that actually work? President-elect has indicated the U.S. will make Greenland purchase a priority in post about new ambassador to Denmark The Independent UK · Dec 24, 2024
Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024
The Guardian - US · Nov 12, 2024 Will the American project survive the anger of white men? At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare
The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024 ‘There are images no leader ever wants to be seen’: 33 pivotal US presidential moments captured on camera From the intimate to the infamous, these pictures of US commanders-in-chief (and a few also-rans) capture moments of tragedy and hope at the heart of the White House
Fortune · Oct 30, 2024 The stock market points to a win for Kamala Harris—unless it’s 1968 or 1980 all over again Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter are the only post-WWII candidates from an incumbent party to lose despite a preelection market surge.
The Conversation · Oct 8, 2024 ‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weekslong, multistate exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess public opinion about the presidential race.
Reason · Aug 26, 2024 Donald Trump Promising a Position to RFK Jr. Isn't Illegal Criminalizing such promises would violate the First Amendment
The Conversation · Jul 15, 2024 How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…
The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2024 When US presidents and UK prime ministers met for the first time – from hand-holding to ‘political soulmates’ Sir Keir Starmer and Joe Biden’s working relationship may be different to that of forerunners, such as Theresa May and Donald Trump, and Gordon Brown and Barack Obama
The Guardian - US · Jun 27, 2024 When was the last time two US presidents faced each other in an election? As Biden faces Trump – again– for the first time in more than 50 years, Republicans will rerun a candidate who lost a presidential election
Fortune · Jun 24, 2024 The national debt is over $34 trillion. It’s time to tell the truth about the U.S. government’s finances The U.S. government will pay close to $900 billion this year just in interest payments on the national debt.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jun 16, 2024 Commanders minicamp summary: Daniels already leading Jayden Daniels already displaying leadership qualities.
Salon · Jun 13, 2024 Ozone protection efforts are working Successful bans on chemicals that eat away the ozone layer demonstrate pollution and climate change is a choice