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US Democrats are losing the war for attention. Badly. - Ezra Klein
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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested as agencies probe his short-lived martial law decree
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US Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's views on women in combat, infidelity, and extremism, in his own words
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Arizona attorney general wants former special prosecutor Jack Smith's Donald Trump prosecution file to aid in state law fake electors case
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New Rasputins rise to power - mysticism, pseudo science and autocracy
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What to know about the siege outside South Korea’s presidential compound
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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
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How a mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
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Why is Hollywood suddenly silent about Donald Trump?
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While a potential US acquisition of Greenland looks unlikely there are compelling reasons why this would be of benefit to the West's security
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What made Jimmy Carter such a strange US president
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Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100
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Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede said the Danish territory will "never be for sale" after US President-elect Donald Trump's comments
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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
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Analysis - how to effectively oppose Kash Patel nomination and some of Donald Trump's most egregious lies
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What happens when climate denialism and misogyny intersect in the US? Enter: ‘petro-masculinity’.
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US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day
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After talks, US removes bounty for capture of new Syrian leader
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Capitol cops suing Donald Trump over January 6 riot ask US court for grand jury material gathered in federal case against Trump
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Is there a way for Donald Trump to run for US presidency for a third time?
for me, the only good part of Trump winning the latest election is just that this is his final term. if America/the world can just white-knuckle it through 4 more years of trump then I feel like...
for me, the only good part of Trump winning the latest election is just that this is his final term. if America/the world can just white-knuckle it through 4 more years of trump then I feel like Trumpism/MAGA movement will die cause (call me crazy) but I don't see his base having that much enthusiasm or gusto for any other candidate. Trump seems unique in this unwavering supporting and loyalty-till-the-end regime he has created within the GOP with the help of Faux News.
I figure 4 more years of insanity, then America's boogeyman will recede into the limelight and maybe it'll force the Democrat Party to campaign on policies that will actually help the American people rather than "we are not a fascist like trump".
but I saw some headlines where Steve Bannon was talking about how to allow Trump to run again and I am not sure if that's just bluster from the MAGA movement as usual or there is a legit chance they'd find a way to strike down the 2 term limit for presidents?
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Norway is assessing its EU options as a second Donald Trump term looms – increased geopolitical tensions could yet see Oslo rethink its attitude towards Brussels
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Russian jokes about Vladimir Putin and the war
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Is Donald Trump playing for keeps? Can his US coalition between labor and capital last?
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US state courts will also have a strong impact on Donald Trump's plans through their authority over state officials and residents
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Syria and the all of Bashar al-Assad - Why Assad's military folded and what's next
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Finland will review whether to reintroduce antipersonnel land mines for improved defenses against Russia on the NATO defense bloc's longest land border with its main adversary
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Donald Trump nominates Fox News host and Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth for US defense secretary
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South Korea’s President is impeached after martial law crisis
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Megathread - Donald Trump allies election interference trials Georgia
The trials for election interference in 2020 continue. This thread is about the Trump allies trials in Georgia.
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Will Kurds survive in the new Syria?
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What is a self-coup? South Korea president’s attempt ended in failure − a notable exception in a growing global trend.
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Doctors say Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering after surgery for a brain bleed
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UC Berkeley scholar discusses higher education under US President-Elect Donald Trump's government
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Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus, senior army officers say; Syria rebels say they are in capital
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US pounds ISIS camps in Syria after Bashar al-Assad flees
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Tears of joy and sadness as ‘disappeared’ Syrians emerge from Bashar al-Assad’s prisons
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Romanian court annuls first round of presidential election
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South Korean president declares emergency martial law
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Wall Street is banking on US President-Elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown
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US President Joe Biden pardons son
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Civil cases against Donald Trump for trying to interfere with the 2020 US election can continue while he is president - analysis
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Syria launches counterattacks in an attempt to halt insurgency, as Iran’s top diplomat meets Bashar al-Assad
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Towards a new nuclear arms race? Vladimir Putin, the breakdown of nuclear treaty limits and MIRVs.
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Bomb threats made against US President-Elect Donald Trump cabinet nominees
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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot, an unsealed police report alleges
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Far-right independent candidate Calin Georgescu takes shock lead in Romanian presidential election
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Black poverty activist and pastor William Barber responds to the US election. 'We are ready for a third reconstruction movement.'
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Matt Gaetz withdraws as US attorney general nominee, after sex trafficking and drug use allegations threatened to imperil his confirmation
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