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Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader

It might be comforting to think that American democracy has made it past the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But our research shows that a wide range of the American people, of all political stripes, seek leaders who are fundamentally anti-democratic.

The Conversation

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

The Conversation

Homeless man makes £10.5 million mansion his home after owners abandon it

A homeless man has been seeking shelter inside a $12.5 million (£10.5 million) mansion in Northeast America after its owners left it abandoned, as he would otherwise have to sleep rough on the streets

Daily Mirror

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Transgender people in rural America struggle to find doctors willing or able to provide care

For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives.

Tribune News Service

‘Hope is not a strategy’: BofA CEO warns corporate America must prepare for the worst around debt ceiling

Bank of America CEO, Brian Moynihan, said now is not the time to start tweaking the 250-year-old Constitution.

Fortune

Yes, Black officers killed Tyre Nichols. What is the correct response to that?

The hierarchy of racial terror has never been enforced only by white people. Nor has it harmed only Black people

The Guardian - US

‘A long time coming’: Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam runs for office

Salaam, who was falsely accused at age 15 of gang rape and incarcerated for seven years, is hoping to use his experience to create a positive change

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Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

Change to Democrats’ 2024 presidential primary schedule benefits Biden, not voters

An NPR analysis in 2016 of which state best represents America found that Illinois is the clear winner, with demographic diversity and a broad cultural and geographic balance of rural, small-town, suburban and urban America.

Chicago Sun-Times

QAnon is spreading outside the US – a conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean

The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22% of Americans accept one of its core beliefs: that some kind of political “storm” is coming and that violence could be necessary to achieve it.

The Conversation

US Congress suggests sending B-21 stealth bombers to Australia under AUKUS partnership

America's next-generation B-21 bomber could be sent to Australia to "accelerate" national security under a Congressional proposal put to the US Defence Secretary.

ABC News

Brian Merchant: How tech is changing LA — and how LA is changing tech

Is tech OK? It's not just the mass layoffs. It's that, to an alien observer, many of the most hyped ideas emerging from America's vaunted tech industry over the last few years would seem untethered from reality, if not outright unhinged.

Los Angeles Times

Librarians left in stitches as overdue book finally returned after 43 years

A team of librarians at Newport News Public Library, in Virginia, America, couldn't help but laugh when a 'mysterious' person returned a book overdue by a massive 43 years

Daily Mirror

Sorry, DeSantis, CRT can't be replaced

The AP changed its course after Florida's GOP governor complained it lacked balance. But what is the opposing view?

Salon

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Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: What got Rep. Ilhan Omar kicked off that House committee? Payback and prejudice, not antisemitism

The idea that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has essentially given aid and comfort to those who supported an insurrection against the United States government, would accuse anyone of being un-American is as rich as it is Orwellian.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Watering down AP African American studies is a disservice to students

A new Advanced Placement African American studies course, piloted across 60 schools during the current school year, has been celebrated by scholars of race and ethnicity and criticized by conservative politicians and commentators. When the official curriculum was released last week, revisions made by the course designers suggest that they…

Reuters

How China's balloon over America steered its way into spying history

When China's suspected surveillance balloon first passed into U.S. airspace north of Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28, American officials believed there was a good chance it would keep traveling on a northern trajectory over sparsely populated areas.

Liverpool Echo

Wife's cancer cured after chance match with American woman

Her husband explained the horrific ordeal

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The Independent UK

Biden's State of the Union to tout policy wins on economy

President Joe Biden will use his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to remind Americans of how their lives have been improved over his first two years in office, as he tries to navigate the tricky politics of a newly divided Washington

The Guardian - US

Buttigieg backs Biden 2024 run but poll says most Americans don’t

Poll shows 60% of Democrats want someone else as 2024 nominee and nearly 50% of Republicans don’t want Trump

The Guardian - US

Schools and universities are ground zero for America’s culture war

It’s easy to get people riled up and panicked about kids, about a changing culture and about lost innocence. That’s exactly what the right is doing

The Independent UK

Republican representative calls on Biden to resign over Chinese balloon: ‘Catastrophic spectacle’

Rep Joe Wilson claims Biden’s “open border policies have allowed hundreds of identified terrorists into America to commit mass murder”

Reason

Examining America's War in Iraq After 20 Years

It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.

The Guardian - US

The Aftermath review: a younger, more liberal America? OK, Boomer

Philip Bump of the Washington Post has produced a fascinating account of demographic change and future possibilities

Reason

The GOP's Pitchfork Populism Is Older Than Trump

But it doesn't have to be the future of the GOP or the country.

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