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Fact check: Can Trump use a 1798 law to carry out mass deportations?

The law has been used three times in history – but only when the United States has been at war with a foreign nation.

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Supreme Court justices have a job for life. But some left the court to make their lasting mark

One of the allures of being a Supreme Court justice is that the job has lifetime tenure

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris’s endorsements show Republicans may be paying the price for their newfound anti-business rhetoric

Anti-business rhetoric erodes a traditional area of Republican advantage.

Fortune

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Read a transcript of Biden’s speech on dropping out of the presidential race

‘I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation,’ Biden said in a speech from the Oval Office

The Guardian - US

Joe Biden’s full remarks from the White House about ending his campaign

The remarks were delivered from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval office

The Independent UK

Is the backlash against Biden ableist?

The fallout from the Trump-Biden debate raises fresh questions about ageism and ableism

Salon

Timeline: Assassination attempts against US presidents, candidates

Four US presidents and one candidate have been assassinated since the founding of the US.

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Why Joe Biden refuses to step aside

Presidents and other politicians used to resign or retire for the good of the country. What's changed?

Salon

MAGA didn't come out of nowhere

Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along

Salon

Transcript: President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address - Roll Call

Transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.

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Read President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address

Read President Biden's 2024 State of the Union speech as prepared for delivery — and watch him give his speech on March 7.

WEKU

A History of Taxpayer Revolts

Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.

Reason

How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II

Instead of indulging in politically risky sedition prosecutions of the black press, the government relied on indirect methods of behind-the-scenes manipulation and intimidation.

Reason

Trump's campaign is spooked

The Trump campaign understands that his mouth is lethal for Trump's chances in the general election

Salon

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Americans are more interested in Keir Starmer than any other Brit

In December 1941, after the Americans had been plunged into the Second World War by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill travelled the Atlantic to meet with Franklin Roosevelt. As a mark of respect because of the wartime alliance, he was invited to stay in the White House.…

The Guardian - US

‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender

The Guardian - UK

It’s a lie promoted by the right that state help saps people of their drive

There is no sign that furlough drove people away from the labour market, and research on Roosevelt’s New Deal found that big government bound the country together

The Independent UK

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

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The Conversation

Hunter Biden is the latest presidential child to stain a White House reputation − but others have shined it up

Hunter Biden, the surviving son of President Joe Biden, was indicted on Sept. 14, 2023, on gun-related charges – facing a possible criminal trial while his father is campaigning for reelection. The charges relate to Hunter Biden’s alleged lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun in 2018.…

The Conversation

How term limits for Australian political leaders could build a stronger democracy

King George III reputedly said of the inaugural US president, George Washington, on learning the American had declined a third term of office, that he was “the greatest character of the age”. George III marvelled at Washington because, despite entreaties that he continue as president, Washington had voluntarily ceded power.…

WEKU

Labor Day is now a key to Election Day for Democrats and Republicans alike

With all that has shifted around in American politics, the Democrats' disconnect from the broad working class is the loss that has cost them the most and threatens them most in the years ahead.

The Independent UK

Biden will use Camp David backdrop hoping to broker a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations

Camp David is where U.S. presidents go to relax and escape Washington's prying eyes

The Conversation

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks

It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe.

Inverse

78 Years Ago, the First Nuclear Bomb Changed the World Forever — Here's Exactly How It Happened

The following half-century was one of intense nuclear testing, the residue of which might be the signature for the proposed new epoch of the Anthropocene.

The Independent UK

Biden draws laughs after touting Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘endorsement’ at Philadelphia event

The president is leaning into the GOP congresswoman’s description of him as following in the footsteps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson

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