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23 votes
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 13
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
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6 votes -
Danielle Smith puts petroleum over country
14 votes -
US Democrats are losing the war for attention. Badly. - Ezra Klein
27 votes -
The US Senate is considering the Laken Riley Act. Here's what it would do if fully implemented and upheld by the courts.
18 votes -
Sudan’s military has used chemical weapons twice, US officials say
15 votes -
Ohio woman sues hospital, medical staff, city, and police after being arrested for miscarriage
37 votes -
US Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's views on women in combat, infidelity, and extremism, in his own words
16 votes -
Arizona attorney general wants former special prosecutor Jack Smith's Donald Trump prosecution file to aid in state law fake electors case
13 votes -
More than a dozen US states have passed new laws that led to restrictions on pornography. Now, the Supreme Court will weigh in.
26 votes -
Abortion bans seem to be driving young people to move out of state
27 votes -
New Rasputins rise to power - mysticism, pseudo science and autocracy
6 votes -
Do people actually get more conservative as they age? - US voting trends by generation
17 votes -
Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to three reforms that could help
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 6
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5 votes -
It can be lonely to have a middle-of-the road opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict
17 votes -
US Republicans introduce constitutional amendment to impose term limits
18 votes -
The best way for America to help the new Syria
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USA: Metrics for a presidential report card
Shortly after the election I saw a cartoon on Facebook titled "Let's Get A Baseline". It listed various prices for common goods and other assorted statistics. I looked up a few, and those were...
Shortly after the election I saw a cartoon on Facebook titled "Let's Get A Baseline". It listed various prices for common goods and other assorted statistics. I looked up a few, and those were incorrect.
A sort of "presidential report card" did seem like a neat idea to me. Something to be reviewed every January 20th. Perhaps in a chart that would make facts speak for themselves in social media.
Are there any magazines or news sources that already do this? Something like The Economist?
These are metrics I would like to see in such a chart, perhaps a bar graph.
Please suggest others that you think ordinary voters would care about
- National debt
- Inflation
- Unemployment
- The GDP
- The literacy rate
- National match scores ( compared globally )
- The poverty rate
- Administration members indicted
- Average price of gas
- Average yearly salary
- Average retirement savings
10 votes -
Is America going to abandon its towns falling into the ocean?
23 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 30
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5 votes -
Matthew Alan Livelsberger wrote political statements calling to forcibly remove Democrats from office in Washington
17 votes -
How a mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
25 votes -
A deadly accident has Hawaii officials pleading for an end to amateur fireworks shows [three killed, twenty injured]
14 votes -
Why is Hollywood suddenly silent about Donald Trump?
13 votes -
Poll results show the percentage supporting the position 'let them burn' regarding American institutions
22 votes -
US Treasury says its computers were hacked by a Chinese 'threat actor' in a 'major incident'
45 votes -
Berkeley's evolution on housing
5 votes -
While a potential US acquisition of Greenland looks unlikely there are compelling reasons why this would be of benefit to the West's security
12 votes -
What made Jimmy Carter such a strange US president
15 votes -
Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100
47 votes -
US Congress' age debate reignites over member living in retirement home
51 votes -
US federal anti-hazing legislation to impose new reporting obligations on colleges and universities
12 votes -
Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland – defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was at least $1.5bn
17 votes -
The Democratic National Committee should move HQ to Youngstown, Ohio
5 votes -
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede said the Danish territory will "never be for sale" after US President-elect Donald Trump's comments
20 votes -
US anti-abortion officials from red states continue deputizing angry men to turn over their partners in new legal tactic
25 votes -
US President Joe Biden gives life in prison to thirty-seven of forty federal death row inmates so Donald Trump can't have them executed
30 votes -
Analysis - how to effectively oppose Kash Patel nomination and some of Donald Trump's most egregious lies
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 23
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8 votes -
Luigi Mangione US prosecutors have a jury problem: 'So much sympathy'
46 votes -
What happens when climate denialism and misogyny intersect in the US? Enter: ‘petro-masculinity’.
9 votes -
A close reading of Luigi Mangione’s self-help library
14 votes -
US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day
32 votes -
US government report - The cost of anticompetitive pricing algorithms in rental housing
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 16
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9 votes -
Man who ran secret Chinese ‘police station’ to monitor and harass US-based dissidents pleads guilty in New York
16 votes -
After talks, US removes bounty for capture of new Syrian leader
9 votes -
Capitol cops suing Donald Trump over January 6 riot ask US court for grand jury material gathered in federal case against Trump
17 votes -
Bold solutions to end the homelessness crisis
19 votes