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9 votes
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How New Zealand became an apocalypse escape destination for Americans
8 votes -
A second coronavirus death surge is coming
11 votes -
The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors
4 votes -
NASA delays JWST launch by seven months
7 votes -
Why it could actually be Trump that has an enthusiasm problem, not Biden
14 votes -
US Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Donald Trump administration shifted control from CDC
6 votes -
Defund the police? Defund the military
5 votes -
Florida nursing homes see infections surge as workers spread virus
4 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 -
Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news. This map shows if there’s one near you
11 votes -
After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
33 votes -
New mortgage delinquencies in the United States hit a record in April, well above anything seen during the Great Recession
9 votes -
K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
5 votes -
Great Lakes water temperatures are blowing away records and could climb higher
5 votes -
The empire strikes back -- again. The second film in the Star Wars franchise topped the box office for the first time in twenty-three years, propelled by drive-in theater sales
9 votes -
The phone bill security hole in HIPAA
5 votes -
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crash have caused 5.4 million Americans to lose health insurance, the largest drop ever recorded
11 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
16 votes -
Grant Imahara, host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' dies at 49
41 votes -
A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act, scientists say
15 votes -
Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets
21 votes -
US President Trump commutes sentence of longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone
35 votes -
You are now leaving FantasyLand: The losses will be taken by somebody
4 votes -
You can make millions selling masks to the government in three easy steps
10 votes -
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
10 votes -
"All the hospitals are full": In Houston, overwhelmed ICUs leave COVID-19 patients waiting in emergency rooms
18 votes -
New York's hungry rats torment outdoor diners after lockdown famine
12 votes -
The second defeat of Bernie Sanders
16 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of July 6
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
14 votes -
Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight big factory farms
4 votes -
Less than 2% of Kentucky farms are Black-owned. This company is trying to change that.
5 votes -
The US Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid
10 votes -
The Midnight - Monsters (2020)
On Youtube. Official multilink (Spotify, Bandcamp, ...). Track list 1991 (intro) (00:27) America Online (05:49) Dance With Somebody (04:17) Seventeen (04:02) Dream Away (03:39) The Search for Ecco...
- On Youtube.
- Official multilink (Spotify, Bandcamp, ...).
Track list
- 1991 (intro) (00:27)
- America Online (05:49)
- Dance With Somebody (04:17)
- Seventeen (04:02)
- Dream Away (03:39)
- The Search for Ecco (04:04)
- Prom Night (05:02)
- Fire In The Sky (04:09)
- Monsters (ft. Jupiter Winter) (03:17)
- Helvetica (05:16)
- Brooklyn (04:14)
- Deep Blue (03:57)
- Night Skies (03:04)
- City Dreams (interlude) (02:17)
- Last Train (04:22)
3 votes -
TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US
8 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
10 votes -
Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
10 votes -
US Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
33 votes -
There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
6 votes -
I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
11 votes -
When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
4 votes -
Stanford cuts eleven sports from their varsity program
5 votes -
Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy
4 votes -
In 2008, everyone thought the recession was bad. But in 2020, many Americans’ views depend on their party
6 votes -
Searchable database of the 661,218 companies who received over $150,000 in forgivable SBA PPP loans
7 votes -
Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
19 votes -
The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars
4 votes -
Harvard, MIT sue US immigration authorities over new rule for foreign students
23 votes -
Kanye West says he’s done with Trump—opens up about White House bid, damaging Biden and everything in between
12 votes