New History Headlines
POTUS 2024
Biden Announces Re-election
80 is different in 2023 than in 1776 – but even back then, a grizzled Franklin led alongside a young Hamilton
America has repeatedly relied upon very old leaders. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Franklin was 81.


DeSantis locked in a battle he can’t win - Commentary
His continued relentless obsession with conquering Disney has taken an embarrassing and counterproductive turn.


Doubting Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
A federal disclosure law passed after Watergate requires justices to disclose the details of most real estate sales over $1,000.

Alvin Bragg Busts Donald Trump
Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, showing he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king
American history is rife with presidents who have used their office to extend executive authority.

Cartoonish Partisan Circus Greets Trump’s Arrest in Downtown Manhattan
For the most part, it was lots of yelling and little actual violence.

January 6th Insurrection
When GOP Attorneys General Embraced Jan. 6, Corporate Funders Fled. Now They’re Back.
Since Jan. 6, Republican attorneys generals have tightly embraced Trumpism and the movement that sows doubt about the legitimacy of elections.

The Arts

Return To Sender: Netflix Drops Red Discs
Subscribers will receive their last monthly bill in August, and the company will accept returned discs until October 27.
Tucker Carlson Canceled

April is National Poetry Month
To The River, by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen to a performance of To The River by Edgar Allan Poe

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes | BookBite
Listen to a performance of The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes.

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman | BookBIte
Listen: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman0:00/12:551× 1 Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you

The City
Economic Trouble Signs Emerge for NYC as Office Vacancy Rate Keeps Rising
Office vacancy in the first three months of 2023 rose 16.1%, which means some 76 million square feet of office space is empty.
The Nation

The Senate

SCOTUS

Energy & Environment
U.S. Interior Secretary unveils $125 million for local climate projects
The funding announced Friday will support 240 projects throughout the country

Biden’s new vehicle emissions rules could speed the EV revolution
Although the global market for electric vehicles has surged over the past decade, EVs still account for only a small percentage of new cars sold in the United States. Since 2014, their domestic market share has risen from around 1 percent to around 6 percent. The Biden administration has far
In Washington state, a new initiative to boost urban tree cover
The country’s first statewide collaborative on “tree equity,” is a measure of people’s access to tree coverage and all the benefits it entails.
EPA announces rules curbing cancer-causing pollution from chemical plants
The biggest risk reductions would result from curbing emissions from just eight plants in Texas and Louisiana.
The Globe

Sudan crisis explained: What’s behind the latest fighting and how it fits nation’s troubled past
Burhan nor Dagalo has any intention of relinquishing power. Moreover, they are locked in a power struggle that turned violent on April 15, 2023.

Russian-Ukraine War

Body & Mind
The Extra Deaths
Only by telling the truth can our public health officials keep the public’s trust so that they follow recommendations.
American Labor
Virginia is battleground in baristas’ organizing fight
Workers in nearly 300 of the more than 9,000 U.S. locations have voted to unionize.
The Web

Montana already has voted to ban TikTok. For Congress, it’s going to be much tougher.
Members of both parties have expressed concerns about TikTok’s data collection practices and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
The Final Frontier

In Memoriam
