Among the issues that Donald Trump successfully campaigned on in 2024, the most influential one, along with putting a stop to rampant illegal immigration, was undoubtedly improving the American people’s standard of living, following  years of high inflation under the Biden administration.

The understandable decision of Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the death penalty in the murder trial of Luigi Mangione, charged with killing 50-year-old health care executive Brian Thompson by shooting him in the back just because Mangione saw Thompson as exemplary of the supposed callous greed of his industry, was perhaps surprisingly met with the news that donations to Mangione’s defense fund have already exceeded $1 million.

One of the most compelling, but depressing, World War II films is 1977’s “A Bridge Too Far.”

On his last Friday in office, President Biden announced that he had “amended” the Constitution by holding that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, had met the criteria for ratification.

In 2022, a group of historians and political scientists advocated for replacing the U.S. House's single-member district system with proportional representation to promote a multiparty system, but this proposal is criticized for misunderstanding the purpose of representation and for the practical instability it could create, as seen in other countries with multiparty systems.