Negativity surrounding the government has seeped into public perception of the core components of America’s story,
such as its history, notions of American foreign influence and impact, or the way the country’s democracy works.
Pride in American democracy has declined 14 percentage points since 2017, when it was measured at 42 percent, to 28 percent.
The survey also found that a majority of Americans are disillusioned with the American dream:
They are not confident in …
Americans have paid an additional $59 billion in inflated fuel prices since Trump started his Iran war | The Independent
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House Republican Troy Nehls
Brags About Eating Lobster Tail on July 4th
and Tells Struggling Americans That
‘Maybe’ They ‘Don’t Work as Hard’ as Him
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New polling indicates that most Americans are opposed to Donald Trump’s vanity projects,
including his plans to reshape the look of Washington, D.C. and to put his name on U.S. currency
https://truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-a…
That the US has a health problem isn’t controversial.
The Make America Healthy Again movement, led by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, has highlighted soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.
The movement’s public face isn’t scientists or doctors,
but influencers posting videos from saunas, gyms and parks talking about better choices and individual discipline.
Eat more red meat. Do more push-ups. Drink raw milk. Avoid vaccines and boost your na…
t’s happening again.
In a big American city, a young Indian American democratic socialist is trying to unseat an unpopular Black incumbent on a platform of housing affordability.
This time, the arena is not New York City but Los Angeles.
Nithya Raman, the insurgent, has fashioned herself as a Zohran Mamdani of the West.
Karen Bass, the embattled incumbent, is fighting to stay in office and make sure that lightning doesn’t strike on opposite coasts.
But the simil…
The American Red Cross has declared the second-ever national blood supply crisis
after blood donations fell to a four-year summer low.
On Monday, the 145-year-old non-profit said that as the United States’ largest single provider of blood products,
it now has less than one-day national supply of type O positive blood
– the most commonly transfused blood.
Type O positive blood accounts for about 60% of the ARC’s blood distributions
and is used across everyd…
It is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will probably represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.
It is difficult to say how many seats Democrats will lose in the coming Republican redistricting bonanza that the court’s decision will allow.
A New York Times analysis found that the ruling would endanger about a dozen Democratic-leaning seats across the America…