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10 votes
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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 -
US hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors — because of Donald Trump’s visa ban
9 votes -
US Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Donald Trump administration shifted control from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
6 votes -
Warnings of possible cover-up in progress as Trump orders hospitals to stop sending coronavirus data to CDC
21 votes -
What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
5 votes -
Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets
21 votes -
Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight big factory farms
4 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
10 votes -
Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
10 votes -
There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
6 votes -
Kanye West says he’s done with Trump—opens up about White House bid, damaging Biden and everything in between
12 votes -
Mary Trump’s book accuses the US President of embracing "cheating as a way of life"
16 votes -
Kanye West declares he will run for US president in 2020
27 votes -
Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
9 votes -
White House ordered National Institutes of Health to cancel coronavirus research funding, Anthony Fauci says
15 votes -
EU digs in on digital tax plan, after US quits talks
5 votes -
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
18 votes -
Trump mounts campaign for more debates against Biden
10 votes -
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
13 votes -
What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
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The Donald Trump US administration paid millions for test tubes — and got unusable mini soda bottles
9 votes -
The American press is destroying itself
6 votes -
Protest music of the Bush era
12 votes -
Do you think there will be a 'silver lining' or any long-term results from these protests?
I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought...
I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought it was a class matter disguised as a race one) will take identity politics and racism more seriously and see themselves as privileged white people because it's become pretty hard not to. There will also be a lot of people in poor countries who will relate to the experience of being brutalized by the police and see the US as increasingly like them. I'm Brazilian and I honestly can't really see how is the US any better than my country anymore and in my state I scarcely see the police with more than batons and only in Rio de Janeiro (where drug gangs hide in the mountains and the state government is run by the party led by a former military officer) is the police really comparable.
Organizers might see that strength in numbers does little against FOX News and other media outlets so serious organization (proper mottos for example) might be taken more seriously.
Black people might be energized enough by this to turnout at an equal rate to white people despite the institutional barriers, which hasn't happened since Obama.
17 votes -
Donald Trump administration to make it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska — A ban against luring mothers from their dens with doughnuts and other treats will be lifted
8 votes -
Donald Trump administration makes move to completely roll back US methane pollution regulations
23 votes -
After a staff uproar, New York Times says that Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” op-ed it published yesterday did not meet its standards
21 votes -
US Labor Department employment report shows unexpected improvement, but recovery could still take years
7 votes