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Apr 09 2021
Analysis
A Nation Primed To See Racism In Everything Will Think Only About Race
Americans are now trained to see racism everywhere, even where it doesn't exist.
One high school in Oregon postponed a vote last week on whether to change its mascot from the Trojan to the Evergreens over concerns the lush timber imagery was racist.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, named after the prominent black activist and journalist who documented lynching in the post-Civil
The Federalist
Dec 01 2020
News
Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump's election onslaught
It is not clear yet whether US democracy “survived” the 2020 presidential election unscathed.
If Donald Trump’s playbook of seeking to undermine a legitimate election becomes standard Republican practice for future elections – refuse to concede, make false claims of fraud, fan the flames of conspiracy, sue everywhere and refuse to certify any win by the other side – then American
The Guardian
Jan 20 2021
News
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to have heard of QAnon
WHO INSPIRED the mayhem at America’s Capitol on January 6th? Donald Trump played his part, invigorating his supporters before the riot with a baseless claim that November’s presidential election was stolen. But “Q”, the person (or persons) behind the QAnon conspiracy theory, also bears much of the blame. The anonymous online figure, whose cryptic posts allege that Mr Trump is waging a covert
The Economist
Sep 30 2015
News
Russia Begins Conducting Airstrikes In Syria, After Assad's Request
In a new development that could change the dynamic of Syria's civil war, Russian military aircraft began flying missions in Syria Wednesday. Russia says it will target ISIS fighters.
NPR (Online News)
Sep 30 2015
News
Russia begins air strikes against Syrian opposition, demands US warplanes keep out
Russian warplanes have begun bombarding Syrian opposition targets in the war-torn nation's north, working on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to a senior military official.
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 08 2021
News
West Virginia Republicans seek to criminalize removal of Confederate statues
Nearly 158-years after its founding West Virginia – a state forged from the fires of America’s civil war – remains stuck between north and south. Now lawmakers are considering a bill that would protect Confederate monuments from removal or renaming. Supporters claim they are protecting everyone’s history. Opponents call the bill “traumatic and mentally exhausting”.
At a moment of
The Guardian
Mar 02 2021
News
FBI Director Testifies on Capitol Hill About Jan. 6 Riot
FBI Director Christopher Wray is making his first extensive remarks about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol before a Senate panel Tuesday, as the agency grapples with how to combat violent domestic extremism in the wake of the attack.
Around 300 people have been charged with federal crimes in connection to the attack, ranging from trespassing to conspiracy and assault charges, laying
Wall Street Journal (News)
Sep 25 2020
News
In despair, protesters take to streets for Breonna Taylor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Some of them raised their fists and called out “Black lives matter!” Others tended to the letters, flowers and signs grouped together in a square in downtown Louisville. All of them said her name: Breonna Taylor.
People dismayed that the officers who shot the Black woman in her apartment during a drug raid last March wouldn’t be charged with her death vowed to
Associated Press
Dec 20 2016
News
An assassination and a gunman’s final words put Turkey on edge
A team of Russian detectives arrived in Turkey on Tuesday to join the investigation into the slaying of Moscow’s ambassador by a Turkish police officer — an act portrayed by both countries as an effort to rupture a rapprochement between the two regional powers backing opposite sides in Syria’s civil war.
Washington Post
May 07 2021
News
How Trump is hunting down the GOP’s leading families
In his attempt to exercise full dominion over the Republican Party, Donald Trump has reserved a special fury for the dynasties that helped shape it.
In the civil war between Donald Trump and the GOP’s waning establishment, no Republican has crossed the former president and come out ahead.
Yet as Rep. Liz Cheney’s likely ouster from House leadership lays bare, Trump has reserved a
Politico