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9 votes
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What academics can do now to prevent a coup later
5 votes -
Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
28 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
8 votes -
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
9 votes -
Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
3 votes -
Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
17 votes -
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish
11 votes -
Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
14 votes -
The FBI, the second Red scare, and the folk singer who cooperated
6 votes -
With violent crime on the rise, Minneapolis City Council asks: Where are the police?
5 votes -
The country’s most important climate election is happening in Texas
8 votes -
How to think about the deficit by James Tobin
6 votes -
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
30 votes -
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement
6 votes -
People who live near the most toxic sites in America say they saw a level of attention they hadn't seen in decades under Donald Trump
18 votes -
When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
8 votes -
Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
3 votes -
Joe Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
8 votes -
United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House
18 votes -
California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
7 votes -
Republicans win two US House special elections
9 votes -
The 2020 Democratic National Convention has concluded. What are your thoughts on it?
Share your thoughts and feelings on how the convention went, and what you think it means for the remainder of the race. Did it change how you plan on voting or participating in the election? Who...
Share your thoughts and feelings on how the convention went, and what you think it means for the remainder of the race. Did it change how you plan on voting or participating in the election? Who were the stand out speakers that you would like to share with others? Will you be watching the Republican National Convention? What were the biggest stories to come out as a result of the convention?
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33 votes -
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
24 votes -
Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
7 votes -
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
16 votes -
America is following disastrous Trump advice to slow down testing
10 votes -
Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
51 votes -
The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
3 votes -
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
5 votes -
The Trump Pandemic: A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans
15 votes -
US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
9 votes -
US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
19 votes -
Everything, um, unusual about Kodak’s Trump-assisted pivot to pharmaceuticals
11 votes -
Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
31 votes -
The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
13 votes -
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
11 votes -
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with coronavirus
29 votes -
How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
2 votes -
Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
7 votes -
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
7 votes -
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
5 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
Stephen Colbert interviews Mary Trump on her new book
4 votes -
Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?
11 votes -
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in connection with $60 million bribery scheme
19 votes -
Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
5 votes -
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint
10 votes -
Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
8 votes