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Trump is laying the groundwork to privatize America’s national parks

Americans adore our park system. But the president appears ready to cut its budget and let it fail

The Guardian - US

'Hamilton' author Ron Chernow's new book takes on an icon of American letters, Mark Twain

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant

The Independent UK

Trump speaking poorly of other presidents is uncommon, but not unheard of, in American presidential history

Former presidents don’t criticize their successors in public.

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What If Native American Tribes Had Gotten Their Own State?

Historian Donald L. Fixico explores a forgotten moment in Oklahoma history and its lessons about liberty.

Reason

If Trump really cared about his ‘favourite’ US president, he would leave Gaza and Greenland alone

He eulogises the 25th incumbent, William McKinley, but on tariffs and imperialism, Trump is learning the wrong lessons, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Trump might want to revive America’s imperial heyday – but does his base?

The president’s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion

The Guardian - US

Kevin Costner takes to the wilderness again in 'Yellowstone to Yosemite', a new docuseries on the birth of the National Parks

Costner's journey follows the 1903 Yosemite expedition of president Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir

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Presidential smiles: the untold story of teeth in the White House

When Donald Trump joined Elon Musk for a live interview on X (formerly Twitter) late last year, the conversation covered a range of significant topics: his near-assassination, Biden’s withdrawal from the race, and the future of the presidency. However, for many viewers, an unexpected detail stole the spotlight: Trump’s slurred…

The Conversation

What to stream: Amy Schumer expecting, Kevin Costner celebrates a park and Pharrell is made of Lego

Amy Schumer leading the R-rated comedy “Kinda Pregnant” and “Yellowstone” star Kevin Costner narrating a docuseries celebrating Yosemite National Park are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Independent UK

California Gov. Newsom Speaks Loudly, Carries Small Stick

Newsom is a prototypical modern progressive governor whose pro-democracy tour of Southern states evoked more mocking than fear.

Reason

A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal

The Independent UK

Doug Burgum could soon be driving Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ promises on public lands

Conservationists fear an expansion of drilling with North Dakota governor Trump’s pick for secretary of the interior and White House ‘energy czar’

The Guardian - US

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists.

The Conversation

‘There are images no leader ever wants to be seen’: 33 pivotal US presidential moments captured on camera

From the intimate to the infamous, these pictures of US commanders-in-chief (and a few also-rans) capture moments of tragedy and hope at the heart of the White House

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Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?

We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

Salon

Tim Walz and the politics of football

Through "Coach Walz," Democrats try to embrace football and a revisionist masculinity. It's a bad bargain

Fortune

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.

The Guardian - US

Welcome to the Trump show: Republican convention to resemble coronation

Speaker after speaker will line up in Milwaukee to pay tribute to their nominee – and they’re confident of his chances against Biden

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The Independent UK

Theodore Roosevelt's pocket watch was stolen in 1987. It's finally back at his New York home

A silver pocket watch that belonged to President Theodore Roosevelt is back on public display at his home and national park site in New York, nearly four decades after it was stolen

WEKU

RFK Jr. may have missed a major opportunity with his VP pick

Until his running mate Nicole Shanahan can prove herself an asset, Kennedy will seem to have missed an opportunity to capture the imagination of the nation — or at least a meaningful segment of it.

Salon

We have met the enemy and he is us

And with no sense of humor, the joke is on us

Reason

Review: Ken Burns Explains the Anti–Native American Plot To Kill Bison

The American Buffalo documentary charts the fall and rise of American bison.

Latin Times

National Hat Day: The Panama Hat is Actually Ecuadorian and Advocates Are Pushing to Update the Name

They asked retailers to rename the Panama hat to the Ecuador hat.

The Conversation

Don't count Biden out: January polls are historically unreliable

As 2024 begins, Joe Biden’s hopes of being re-elected president of the United States look shaky. Recent approval ratings have him at 39 per cent, consumer sentiment on the economy sits near a 10-year low and early polls have him down about two points in a hypothetical rematch with Donald…

The Independent UK

The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it?

In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes

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