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Apr 18, 2022 · Republicans are telling us they’re going to try to steal the next election. Democrats seem to be jamming their heads in the sand to avoid the issue and hope that two centuries of rule-following...
- Conor Friedersdorf
- His withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most shameful foreign policy calamity in my lifetime. Biden left hundreds of US citizens and as many as 62,000 of our Afghan allies behind enemy lines, and forced NATO allies to abandon their citizens and allies as well.
- He failed to deliver on his promise to put his “whole soul” into uniting the country. Biden threatened to veto his own bipartisan infrastructure bill, then went to Capitol Hill and urged members of his own party to take it hostage as leverage to pass Build Back Better.
- His $1.9 trillion in social spending disguised as “covid-19 relief” helped unleash inflation and extreme labor shortages. This was the worst fiscal policy mistake in decades, passed with Democratic votes alone.
- He unleashed the worst border crisis in US history. US Customs and Border Protection reported more than 1.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border, nearly four times the number the year before, the highest annual total on record — including 378,000 who were not from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala.
- The Start of Ongoing Discussions
- Covid-19: A Lesson in Interconnection
- Shared Future, Shared Approach
- Prepare For The Long Road
The Commission for the Human Future formed last year, following earlier discussions within emeritus faculty at the Australian National Universityabout the major risks faced by humanity, how they should be approached and how they might be solved. We hosted our first round-table discussion last month, bringing together more than 40 academics, thinker...
It’s tempting to examine these threats individually, and yet with the coronavirus crisis we see their interconnection. The response to the coronavirus has had implications for climate change with carbon pollution reduction, increased discussion about artificial intelligence and use of data (including facial recognition), and changes to the landscap...
The commission’s report does not aim to solve each risk, but rather to outline current thinking and identify unifying themes. Understanding science, evidence and analysis will be key to adequately addressing the threats and finding solutions. An evidence-based approach to policyhas been needed for many years. Under-appreciating science and evidence...
The short-termism of our political process needs to be circumvented. We must consider how our actions today will resonate for generations to come. The commission’s report highlights the failure of governments to address these threats and particularly notes the short-term thinking that has increasingly dominated Australian and global politics. This ...
- March 16, 1968: The My Lai massacre. On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers in Charlie Company killed as many as 567 South Vietnamese civilians, including women and children, in what became known as the My Lai Massacre.
- Aug. 28, 1955: Emmett Till’s Murder. Periodically an event so offends our conscience that people have no choice but to take action. The murder of Emmett Till in 1955 was such a moment.
- Nov. 10, 1898: The Wilmington Coup. In 1898, Wilmington, N.C., saw the only instance in U.S. history in which a legitimate government was overthrown by a white-supremacist coup.
- 1779: Smallpox in the American West. At the same time that the American Revolution was raging in the East, a smallpox pandemic occurred in the West that affected the course of American history.
May 31, 2020 · The most traumatic year in modern American history was 1968. But what is now the second-most traumatic year, 2020, still has seven months to run.
Jun 28, 2024 · The survey ranked Biden as the 14th best president in U.S. history, and put Trump last. The historians were asked to give every president a score, from zero to 100. Abraham Lincoln topped the list ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Trump claim: Biden indicted me because I’m his political opponent. “He [Biden] indicted me because I'm his opponent.”. This is false. Trump was indicted and convicted in New York for ...
