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Experts say Harris is right about Trump: America's founding fathers would've deemed him "treasonous"

Salon · Oct 11, 2024

Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris shows how big a role music is playing in the 2024 election

Music generates passion and emotion, so it’s little surprise that popular tunes have been featured in presidential contests since the days of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The Conversation · Sep 12, 2024

Malcolm Gladwell's Invented Facts Make Good Stories

His "Revisionist History" podcast can amount to historical fiction

Reason · Sep 11, 2024

Supreme Court ruling may put presidents above the law – but even kings never were

Many observers say a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision from July 1, 2024, turns presidents into kings – but they underestimate how truly radical the ruling actually may be. In fact, though the court’s majority said it was honoring constitutional tradition, it appears to have created something entirely new: a…

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2024

Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections

Pennsylvania’s role as a swing state in presidential elections is a modern continuation of a characteristic noted as early as 1802. At a rally celebrating the election victory of President Thomas Jefferson, Pennsylvania was reportedly referred to as “the keystone of the federal union” – a keystone being the central…

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2024

How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

The Conversation · Jul 15, 2024

"Not just some isolated incident": Trump's potential running mate alleges Biden's involvement in shooting at Pennsylvania rally

The potential running mate of former US President Donald Trump, JD Vance, has blamed former US President Joe Biden's campaign for the shooting at Trump's campaign rally in Pennsylvania's Butler. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Jul 14, 2024

Terroir noir: wine’s hidden colonial history needs to be uncorked

Around a thousand people are gathered in Washington DC for Wine + Culture Fest, a four-day celebration of the black wine experience featuring black winemakers, sommeliers, chefs and enthusiasts. Wine connoisseurship has a reputation for being largely white, male and European, so the idea of a black world of wine…

The Conversation · Jul 11, 2024

‘Stay in school’: Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked over July 4th gaffe

Georgia representative was ridiculed for muddling up details about the signers of the Declaration of Independence

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2024

A newly discovered letter by Thomas Jefferson shows ‘a regular guy with financial burdens’

The note, valued at $40,000, is for sale in honor of Fourth of July, also the 198th anniversary of Jefferson’s death

The Guardian - US · Jul 4, 2024