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A battle between appearance and reality

Trump is an expert at selling an appearance and Biden can’t sell reality

Salon · May 16, 2024

What happens if a US presidential candidate dies?

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two oldest candidates in US history. If either needs to be replaced, what next?

The Guardian - US · May 5, 2024

Columbia crisis: Liberalism chokes again

Columbia's president capitulated to the right-wing witch hunt — and only made things worse. Maybe that's a lesson?

Salon · Apr 28, 2024

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As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone

The president’s moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam before him

The Guardian - US · Apr 17, 2024

Joe Lieberman obituary

Centrist senator from Connecticut who sought to become vice-president alongside Al Gore and went on to support No Labels

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2024

Falling for the MLK & Malcolm X fantasy

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. were geniuses. Yet again National Geographic's anthology fails to show that

Salon · Feb 3, 2024

MAGA is right (sort of)

Just not the way they believe

Salon · Feb 1, 2024

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Your autograph, Mr. Caro? Ahead of 50th anniversary, 'Power Broker' author feels like a movie star

Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2023

The Californication of the country’s housing market

Record homelessness, sky-high rents, and homes affordable only to millionaires: A case study in how local control and a shifting national economy created today’s perverse housing market.

Fortune · Dec 16, 2023

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100

An ‘enigmatic realist’ who fled Nazi Germany, Kissinger is remembered for ending the US war in Vietnam, opening China.

Al Jazeera · Nov 30, 2023

Henry Kissinger obituary

US secretary of state with peerless diplomatic skills, tireless energy and a ruthless desire to protect his country’s interests

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

A brief history of the US-Israel 'special relationship' shows how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state

In his first remarks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden affirmed the United States offered “rock solid and unwavering” support to Israel, “just as we have (done) from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its…

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2023

Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails

‘The next time, I’m not waiting,’ former president said on 2024 campaign trail

The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2023

30 People Share The Most Hard-To-Believe Facts That Are Actually True

Not everything that sounds right is true. And far from everything that sounds fake is false. Reality is—quite often—stranger than fiction.

Bored Panda · Nov 27, 2023

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The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2023

Why JFK’s assassination remains a mystery

Fascination with unanswered questions over the fourth presidential assassination persists, writes Graeme Massie

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2023

JFK: 60 years on from assassination, what do we know and what remains a mystery?

Fascination with unanswered questions over the fourth presidential assassination persists, writes Graeme Massie

Salon · Nov 19, 2023

When a liberal president goes to war

We drove LBJ from office — and got 50 years of dreadful Republican policy. Those who don't learn from history ...

The Guardian - US · Nov 16, 2023

US wasn’t always Israel’s strongest ally – what changed and why?

Washington has long been Israel’s strongest military and diplomatic backer – but the relationship has evolved over time

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

Kevin Phillips obituary

American political analyst behind Richard Nixon’s electoral ‘southern strategy’ who later became an author and columnist

Salon · Nov 2, 2023

GOP "tough on crime"? Not in reality

Most Americans still buy the myth that Republicans are strong on crime. That was never true, even before Trump

The Guardian - US · Oct 8, 2023

Democracy Awakening review: Heather Cox Richardson’s necessary US history

The Boston College professor offers a valuable primer on Republican extremism – but also progressive achievement

WEKU · Oct 7, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 21, 2023

Provocative ‘Deadlocked’ doc surveys the key Supreme Court appointments of recent decades

On Showtime’s comprehensive series, experts put the decisions of Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, William Rehnquist and other legal minds in context.

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2023

There is ‘no real evidence’ Biden will replace Harris on the 2024 ticket. So why is the chatter persisting?

Shaking up the ticket would also shake up the entire Democratic Party at a time when most agree it can’t afford weakness, John Bowden writes

Fortune · Sep 19, 2023

Top analyst Ed Yardeni raises the odds of recession to 25% citing oil prices rising to $94 and a potential repeat of 1970s-style stagflation

If oil prices rise to and remain above $100 per barrel, Yardeni fears we could see a repeat of the inflationary 1970s.

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