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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three…

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Biden to sign proclamation establishing national monument honoring first US female Cabinet secretary

President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins

The Independent UK

Trump wants to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war

President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation in his second term.

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Trump's risky Social Security plans

Millions are barely scraping by on the program, which Trump seems determined to gut

Salon

Trump and his team keep referencing a third term in 2028. But could he actually run again?

The 22nd amendment bars presidents from a third term in office. Is it enough to stop Trump?

The Independent UK

The great remembrance divide: Britain fought for freedom in Europe, but against it in the colonies

While war raged against Hitler, people in places such as India were brutalised – despite their own sacrifices to the cause, says author Mihir Bose

The Guardian - UK

Trump and the imperial presidency

Presidential powers have expanded dramatically throughout American history. Now we've handed them back to him

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The election is over − but what is a ‘lame duck’ anyway?

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now?

The Conversation

Ego, hubris and narcissism: Where Donald Trump ranks among the other 45 American presidents

Sometimes Donald Trump really is a G.O.A.T. — the “greatest of all time” — among American presidents, at least. Of course, “greatest” in this instance refers to quantity or bulk, not quality.

The Conversation

Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?

We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

The Guardian - US

OPINION - Beth Rigby: Keir Starmer's first 100 days have been dreadful — can his reset work?

Keir Starmer has suffered a tumultuous first 100 days as Prime Minister. A strategic reset needs to restore voter confidence in his administration

Evening Standard

All the presidents Jimmy Carter’s life has overlapped with as he turns 100

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

The Independent UK

US Presidents who died of heart attack and stroke

The threat of heart attack and other related conditions continues to grow. This is reflected in the number of celebrities, and the who's who from different walks of life losing their lives due to cardiac deaths. There is a long list of US presidents who have suffered cardiac events and…

The Times of India

Trump and Harris, with starkly different records on labor issues, are both courting union voters

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Every voting bloc will count – including members of labor unions and other people in their households.

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Democratic Party’s embrace of organized labor in 2024 elections has long roots that had started to wither

I wonder what my dad, a butcher and a die-hard union man, would think about the state of our country’s political affairs. Is it “Morning in America” as Ronald Reagan exclaimed? “American Carnage” as Donald Trump proclaimed? Or, do “we have nothing to fear but fear itself,” as Franklin D.…

Salon

Not like '68: DNC is back in Chicago

Chicago has been home to Democratic conventions both triumphant and disastrous

The Conversation

US election: does it matter who is the vice-presidential pick? In Tim Walz’s case, yes

The fanfare and publicity surrounding Tim Walz for his first fortnight as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick has sparked renewed interest as to whether the second person on the ticket makes any difference when it comes to the result of the election. The conventional wisdom on the role and significance of…

Al Jazeera

Can Kamala Harris help Democrats regain lost Black votes?

Some Black voters have drifted away from the Democrats in recent years, but will Harris be able to pull them back?

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Biden-Harris on Supreme Court Term Limits

An attack on the independence of the federal judiciary.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump tells supporters they 'won't have to vote again' if he is reelected

Former president suggests that vote would be ‘fixed’ in future

The Conversation

Sure, 2024 has had lots of news – but compared with 1940, 1968 or 1973, it’s nothing exceptional

History usually happens at a leisurely pace, with major events months or even years apart. But this year, it seems like someone has pushed fast-forward, with significant events coming on a weekly or even daily basis. One company is now selling a T-shirt declaring “THIS IS MY LIVING IN UNPRECEDENTED…

The Guardian - UK

Tough on elites, tough on the causes of elites: that’s how Starmer can defeat the allure of populism

As the west zigzags between centrists and populists, it will take a fiercer response from Labour to halt a creep to the right, says Guardian columnist Andy Becket

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Attempted assassination of Trump: The long history of violence against U.S. presidents

Political assassinations in the United States have a long and disturbing history.

Al Jazeera

Israel to Ukraine to Bulgaria: Which countries receive US military aid?

The US provides billions in military aid around the world, but who benefits the most – and why?

The Independent UK

Six other presidents didn’t run for another term. Here’s what happened then

Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B Hayes, James Buchanan, and James K Polk. Gustaf Kilander breaks down what happened when US presidents chose to bow out early

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