Platinum Jubilee: All US Presidents the Queen has met during her 70-year reign Throughout the last seven decades the Queen has given official state visits to just three presidents. Daily Record · Jun 2, 2022
Jonathan Bernstein: If Watergate happened today, would Nixon have survived? The 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests is approaching: The first break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters was on May 28, 1972, but the botched return on June 17 produced arrests and eventually brought Richard Nixon’s presidency to a premature end on Aug. 8, 1974. The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan… Tribune News Service · Jun 1, 2022
Beekeepers and communists: how environmentalists started a global conversation The world’s longest serving environment correspondent explains the origins of a slow and continuing journey The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2022
How 'gate' became the syllable of scandal On June 17, 1972, Washington, D.C., police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate burglary,” its scope would grow to consume Richard Nixon’s presidency and then bring it to an end… The Conversation · May 26, 2022
Behold! A “cosmic cataclysm” reveals a strange sight in the Milky Way’s satellite galaxy In this edition of Inverse Daily, read about a cosmic cataclysm, an anniversary for the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in space, and why we're all so obsessed with UFOs. Inverse · May 25, 2022
50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space In 1972, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed a landmark agreement that led to the first international space mission — a test to ensure one superpower could help the other's astronauts out in space. Inverse · May 24, 2022
Biden on Taiwan: Did he really commit US forces to stopping any invasion by China? An expert explains why, on balance, probably not The White House has been left scrambling a little after President Joe Biden suggested on May 23, 2022, that the U.S. would intervene militarily should China attempt an invasion of Taiwan. The Conversation · May 24, 2022
Rain forecast for election day in eastern Australia, with sunny voting in most other regions If you haven't pre-polled, Saturday is one day that almost all Australian adults have to leave the house to vote, rain, hail or shine. So what's the weather doing in Australia this election day? And could it influence the result? ABC News · May 19, 2022
"Cambridge, we have a problem" "Cambridge, we have a problem" doesn't quite have the same ring to it Salon · May 15, 2022
Jackie Robinson was a radical Robinson was an activist and rebel long before he broke baseball's color line Salon · May 14, 2022
A Record Number of Drug-Related Deaths Shows the Drug War Is Remarkably Effective at Killing People According to new CDC numbers, the death toll rose 15 percent last year after jumping 30 percent in 2020. Reason · May 13, 2022
What the CIA thinks: William Burns on the new world disorder Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment Financial Times · May 13, 2022
My worst moment: ‘Gaslit’ star Shea Whigham and the time he blasted De Niro’s ear Starring Julia Roberts, the eight-part drama “Gaslit” on Starz zeros in on the crimes that would ultimately take down Richard Nixon’s presidency, specifically the Watergate break-in that was conceived by former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy, played by Shea Whigham as a man unhinged as they come. Chicago Tribune · May 12, 2022
5 justices, all confirmed by senators representing a minority of voters, appear willing to overturn Roe v. Wade If the leaked Supreme Court decision on abortion is to be believed, five justices have voted during private deliberations to overturn Roe v. Wade. Notably, those five are what I refer to as “numerical minority justices.” The Conversation · May 10, 2022
WEKU · May 8, 2022 The leaked abortion decision blew up overnight. In 1973, Roe had a longer fuse The reaction to Roe vs. Wade was immense, but not immediately so. It took months and years for the anti-abortion movement to fully form, to organize and gain political power.
Tribune News Service · May 8, 2022 Stephen L. Carter: The Supreme Court has always been political In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown deeply politicized. But there never existed a golden age when the court was anything else.
Reason · May 6, 2022 When Ted Kennedy Was Pro-Life and Ronald Reagan Was Expanding Abortion Access The forgotten abortion politics of the pre-Roe era
Los Angeles Times · May 3, 2022 Nicholas Goldberg: Why do we still honor J. Edgar Hoover's racist, homophobic legacy? Fifty years ago this week — on May 2, 1972 — J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died at his home near Washington's Rock Creek Park, and was found the next morning by his housekeeper slumped on the floor next to his bed.
Salon · May 1, 2022 Jimmy Carter and disability rights In 1977, people with disabilities occupied federal buildings across America. It was the beginning of something big
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Apr 29, 2022 Editorial: Like pet rocks and bell bottoms,1970s bad economic news is back to haunt Biden U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conjures memories of 1970s stagflation, a nightmarish combination of double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, soaring gasoline prices and persistently high unemployment. The entire economic mess got dumped…
Benzinga · Apr 28, 2022 This Day In Market History: Nixon Urges Americans To Buy Stocks Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On April 28, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon encouraged Americans to buy stocks. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 724.33. The S&P 500 traded at 80.27.
Chicago Tribune · Apr 26, 2022 ‘Gaslit’ review: Julia Roberts humanizes Watergate in new Starz series co-starring Sean Penn Behind every great political scandal, there are players whose stories get shoved to the side by the first, second and even third drafts of history.
Tribune News Service · Apr 25, 2022 Roger Stone won’t run against DeSantis for Florida governor — but says he might challenge ‘RINO’ Rubio FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Roger Stone said Monday he won’t run against Gov. Ron DeSantis, but he said he’s contemplating a Republican primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.
Benzinga · Apr 25, 2022 Support For Drug Decriminalization Among GOP Voters On The Rise, New Poll Reveals How Much Since Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs nearly 51 years ago, arrests, convictions and mass incarceration have been the centerpiece of the US's drug policy approach.
Chicago Tribune · Apr 25, 2022 Why we need information literacy classes for students Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with newspapers and radio, told its audience facts first, and all agreed on what the facts were. That meant Americans had a shared understanding…