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15 votes
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Ohio woman sues hospital, medical staff, city, and police after being arrested for miscarriage
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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
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More than a dozen US states have passed new laws that led to restrictions on pornography. Now, the Supreme Court will weigh in.
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Abortion bans seem to be driving young people to move out of state
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New Rasputins rise to power - mysticism, pseudo science and autocracy
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Do people actually get more conservative as they age? - US voting trends by generation
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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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It can be lonely to have a middle-of-the road opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict
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US Republicans introduce constitutional amendment to impose term limits
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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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Is America going to abandon its towns falling into the ocean?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 30
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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?
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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
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Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100
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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
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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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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'
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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
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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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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
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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
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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?
14 votes -
"I was a US health insurance executive. What I saw made me quit."
22 votes -
Why US health insurance reform is difficult
15 votes -
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
12 votes -
A new US Supreme Court case about religion has a hidden trap for workers, in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin
7 votes