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2024’s quick win for Trump will go down in the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 Election Day landslides

In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out legal...

06.11.2024 4

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Shannon Bow O&39Brien

2024’s Election Day heads into the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 landslides and 2000’s Bush v. Gore nail-biter

In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out legal...

05.11.2024 1

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Shannon Bow O&39Brien

How Trump’s racist talk of immigrant ‘bad genes’ echoes some of the last century’s darkest ideas about eugenics

Trump’s comments against immigrants of color have prompted comparisons to the Nazis. But American and British theorists coined the theory of...

29.10.2024 4

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Shannon Bow O&39Brien

Trump’s second assassination attempt is shocking, but attempts on presidents’ lives are not rare in US history

Former President Donald Trump survived his second assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024, marking the latest chapter in a long history book....

18.09.2024 20

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All politicians change their minds – and have been flip-flopping on positions for hundreds of years

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are far from the first politicians to change their mind about topics, from the innocuous to important policy shifts.

26.08.2024 10

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Shannon Bow O&39Brien

From a pig as political candidate to a breakout speech for Obama − Democratic National Convention often leaves its mark on history

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will officially accept their nominations at the Democratic National Convention. A scholar of the presidency shares...

08.08.2024 5

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Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public

President Joe Biden’s at-times incoherent debate performance against Donald Trump in June has prompted growing pressure from donors, some Democratic...

12.07.2024 2

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Shannon Bow O&39Brien

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