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Australian woman selected for Roosevelt freedom award

Australian human rights advocate Grace Forrest will become only the second Australian to receive a Four Freedoms Award for work battling modern slavery.

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Will Biden's ego bring Trump back to the White House?

Even President Joe Biden’s admirers are worrying about polls showing a close 2024 election, with one party insider fearing a “five-alarm fire.”

The Conversation

The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it?

In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes

The Independent UK

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How baseball endured through World War II

History sometimes forgets that Pearl Harbor also triggered one of the most significant letters in presidential history: the Green Light Letter in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged baseball owners to keep playing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Polls say Trump has a strong chance of winning again in 2024. So how might his second term reshape the US government?

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a zealous convert to Donald Trump’s cause, once offered an expansive vision of how Trump should rule in a second term: “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

The Conversation

Biden and Xi Try the Personal Touch

Does face-to-face diplomacy ever change anything?

Foreign Policy

A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims − testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women's fight to remake labor laws

The 10-story Brown Building, site of one of the deadliest workplace disasters in United States history, stands one block east of Washington Square Park in New York City. Despite three bronze plaques noting its significance, it has long been easy to pass by without further thought.

The Conversation

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Presidential pets can breed controversy. A dog was once suspected of being a spy

Historically, pets — everything from birds to cats to dogs — have been part of the White House. And Biden's dog Commander isn't alone. More than a few have ended up embroiled in some controversy.

WEKU

Review: Not Everyone Liked the New Deal

Amity Shlaes anthologizes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s critical contemporaries.

Reason

When the Left and Right Came Together To Applaud Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

A Republican, a Communist, and a Catholic conservative walk onto a movie set...

Reason

Biden launches climate corps program

The program is rooted in a Roosevelt-era program that employed more than 3 million young people

Salon

Most Americans worry that Social Security will be drained in their lifetime. And Gen Z thinks they’ll never see their investment

Gen Zers and millennials are especially doubtful that they'll see Social Security payouts by retirement.

Fortune

How Biden used Camp David to elevate a summit with Japan and South Korea

For 80 years, presidents have brought foreign leaders to the rustic mountain retreat known as Camp David. President Biden worked to tap into that history for talks with Japan and South Korea.

WEKU

Kamala Harris has tied the record for the most tie-breaking votes in Senate history – a brief overview of what vice presidents do

On Jan. 20, 2021, Kamala Harris became the first African American, the first person of South Asian descent and the first woman to serve as vice president of the United States.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: the man, his science, and the man beyond the science

We take a look at Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist and the man, beyond his most famous scientific development- the atomic bomb.

Inverse

84 Years Ago, Einstein Wrote an Urgent Letter that Altered History Forever

In August 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt notifying him of novel research that could lead to the production of an atomic bomb.

The Guardian - US

Cocaine in the White House: a brief history

The drug was found in the building this weekend – and it’s probably not the first time it’s been inside

Tribune News Service

Amelia Earhart personal items up for auction: Her fingerprints, a president’s fan letter

Eight pieces of memorabilia from the storied life of Kansas-born aviator Amelia Earhart — including a glowing fan letter from her friend, President Franklin D. Roosevelt — go up for auction June 22.

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The Independent UK

Leaders reflect on Churchill’s early hours visits to Roosevelt

Rishi Sunak vowed not to bother Joe Biden in the way the UK’s wartime leader had pestered the then US president.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. must ramp up arms production for Ukraine to send a message to foes of democracy

Ukraine is facing off against the fifth largest army in the world, and Russia has huge advantages in artillery ammunition and a willingness to treat its own people like cannon fodder, Congressman Mike Quigley writes.

The Independent UK

What to stream this week: Foo Fighters, 'The Idol,' LeBron James and 'American Gladiators' doc

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Foo Fighters and some lost songs by the late Kenny Rogers, a new gritty HBO series from “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson called “The Idol” starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd

The Guardian - US

‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place

The Conversation

Biden's coronation no-show is no snub – more telling is whom he sends to King Charles' big day

The fact that first lady Jill Biden, but not her husband, President Joe Biden, will be attending King Charles III’s coronation on May 6, 2023, has not gone down too well with sections of the U.K. press. A “royal snub,” screamed headlines, while commentators grumbled about “Irish Joe” and his…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Helen Ubiñas: In America, our biggest fear is each other

We’ve spent much of the last few years dreading the possibility of coming into close physical contact with one another. And then, preparing ourselves for the moment when we might — with social distancing, masks, vaccines — in order to protect ourselves from harm.

Chicago Sun-Times

Look back at some of Chicago’s other Democratic National Conventions

The list famous figures who have been nominated in Chicago is impressive — including many who did not win.

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