- How Trumpism Is Becoming America’s New “Lost Cause” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/21/trump-civil-war-reconstruction-biden-lost-cause-461161 11 comments politics
- Is Isaiah Wilson a lost cause? https://titansized.com/2020/12/09/titans-isaiah-wilson-lost-cause/ 34 comments nfl
- Is McBurnie a lost cause for Scotland? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53954978 13 comments soccer
- Is the Republican Party a Lost Cause? https://thebulwark.com/can-the-republican-party-be-saved/ 212 comments politics
- Is the GOP a Lost Cause? https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/17/is-the-gop-a-lost-cause/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.395dc487cc47 164 comments politics
- I've struggled with employment for almost 5 years. Am I lost cause? https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/830038750633791488 85 comments spacex
- Trump has birthed a dangerous new ‘Lost Cause’ myth. We must fight it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/08/trump-has-birthed-a-dangerous-new-lost-cause-myth-we-must-fight-it 225 comments politics
- Search for 1887 time capsule under Robert E. Lee monument a lost cause, official says https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/us/lee-monument-time-capsule-trnd/index.html 11 comments nottheonion
- The Right May Be Giving Up the “Lost Cause,” but What’s Next Could Be Worse https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/gop-lost-cause-emancipation-history.amp 109 comments moderatepolitics
- Opinion: House Republicans are a lost cause. But what about their followers? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/house-gop-is-lost-cause-what-about-their-followers/ 23 comments politics
- VA head Robert Wilkie once called the Confederacy's president a 'martyr to 'The Lost Cause' ' https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-robert-wilkie-jefferson-davis-20181208-story.html 6 comments politics
- For those who think signing petitions / sending emails / ringing your local political reps against SOPA and ACTA are a lost cause http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie 3 comments europe
- Georgia Republicans Enacted a Tribute to the Lost Cause Between Lunch and Dinner https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35947603/georgia-republicans-voter-suppression-bill-brian-kemp/ 4 comments politics
- Georgia Republicans Enacted a Tribute to the Lost Cause Between Lunch and Dinner https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35947603/georgia-republicans-voter-suppression-bill-brian-kemp/ 6 comments politics
- Robert E. Lee is my ancestor. Take down his statue, and let his cause be lost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/robert-e-lee-is-my-ancestor-take-down-his-statue-let-his-cause-be-lost/ 676 comments politics
- The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow: Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/jim-crow-laws.html?action=click&module=well&pgtype=homepage&section=sunday%20review 63 comments history
- Scarlett Johansson: Fight Against ‘Deepfake’ Porn Is a ‘Lost Cause’ https://www.thewrap.com/scarlett-johansson-deepfake-porn-lost-cause/ 144 comments technology
- Math Error Causes $25 Million Shortfall in Utah Education Budget, irony not lost on the public http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/error-causes-million-shortfall-in-education-budget/article_ef3a6db0-8400-11e1-99e9-001a4bcf887a.html 27 comments politics
- Heat wave over Greenland causing massive ice melt - More than 10 billion tonnes of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt on Wednesday https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenland-ice-melt-1.5233597 34 comments worldnews
- Democrats had feared Georgia was a lost cause with Biden running. Harris will campaign there Tuesday https://apnews.com/article/harris-georgia-trump-rally-atlanta-4454ff5825d8f6cf90929147f5b84a71 60 comments politics
- Williams: "The Lost Cause is dead." Let's dismantle its legacy beyond the symbols. https://www.richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/williams-the-lost-cause-is-dead-lets-dismantle-its-legacy-beyond-the-symbols/article_c349c993-e32e-5fdd-8fd7-8adc60ac7f88.html?fbclid=iwar2rbhdf99kmyf-iaqdndiknkd0vcf7ktwjvw8svzksac4bx91fi9d13ela#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social 22 comments politics
- May 2017: AfD leader Alice Weidel lost a cause versus a German TV show that called her a 'Nazi bitch' in response to her comment against 'political correctness' http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-afd-nazi/afd-leader-loses-case-versus-german-tv-show-that-calls-her-nazi-bitch-iduskcn18d29t 300 comments europe
- Alfredo Martinez: "Ceballos seemed like a 'lost cause' for Barcelona, but in the last few hours the player is again wavering between the two..." https://twitter.com/alfremartinezz/status/883287175835656192 24 comments soccer
- 750,000 lost jobs caused by piracy? Not even close. "And we're making policy on the basis of our ignorance" http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars 16 comments technology
- How John F. Kennedy Fell for the Lost Cause (gift link) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/12/jfk-profiles-in-courage-book-lucius-lamar/675815/ 3 comments politics
- Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause | If you want to know how the Big Lie will go down in revisionist history, look to the South and the Civil War https://www.salon.com/2021/06/19/donald-trump-and-the-new-lost-cause/ 74 comments politics
- ‘I am livid’: Canadian CEO blasts ‘narcissist in Washington’ after an employee lost his family in plane crash caused by Iranian missile https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/13/canada-ceo-trump-iran/ 1030 comments politics
- If a collapsing universe ends in a Big Crunch that causes a Big Bang and subsequently a new universe, is any energy lost? If so, where does it get lost to? If not (supposing the crunch>bang>crunch theory is true), does this mean that the universe itself is a Perpetual Motion Machine? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/78qn7v/if_a_collapsing_universe_ends_in_a_big_crunch/ 8 comments askscience
- China cruise ship sinking on Yangtze "caused by freak weather" - "The captain should have already been sentenced," a woman who lost both parents says. 'Eastern Star' capsized in one of China's worst shipping disasters in over 60 yrs. 450 lives lost, only 12 survived. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35200918 8 comments worldnews
- Unnoticed mining waste dam collapse in Brazil: operated by BHP and Vale accident caused at least 15 deads, 500 people lost their houses and the environment is expected to take 20-30 years to recover http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/up-to-16-reported-killed-in-dam-burst-at-brazilian-mine/41761918 55 comments worldnews
- Over the past month, heavy rainfall has caused massive amounts of flooding in Europe - Dozens have lost their lives, many thousands evacuated their homes, some repeatedly. [pics] http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/european_flooding.html 4 comments worldnews
- Phoenix face "near economic crisis" caused by lost revenue as organizations cancel events in response to Arizona's controversial immigration law http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/phoenix_says_immigration_law_boycott_is_causing_ne.php 5 comments politics
- Snow chaos in Europe caused by melting sea-ice in the Arctic | Melting Arctic sea ice supplied 88% of the fresh snow - researchers found that for every 1sqm of winter sea-ice lost from the Barents Sea, there was a corresponding 70kg increase in the evaporation, moisture, and snow falling over Europe https://phys.org/news/2021-04-chaos-europe-sea-ice-arctic.html 26 comments worldnews
- TIL: Christian Panucci, an retired Italian player in 1996 narrowly avoided death after his baggage was lost in Atlanta causing him to miss his connecting flight, TWA flight 800 from New York To Paris, which crashed and all people died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_panucci#interesting_facts 52 comments soccer
- TIL India loses 6.4 per cent of its GDP to health and other costs caused by its lack of sanitation (untimely deaths, productivity lost to ill-health or disease, hospital beds used by patients with sanitation-related disease) [NP] http://scroll.in/article/693367/blood-speaks:-menstrual-taboos-in-nepal-and-bangladesh-put-women%27s-health-at-risk 3 comments india
- Democrats can’t win white working class voters: Indeed, in parts of the country—like the Deep South—it’s a lost cause. The Democratic Party is too associated with blacks and too associated with welfare to win over enough whites to make a difference. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/democrats_can_t_win_white_working_class_voters_the_party_is_too_closely.html 26 comments politics
- South Carolina Republican Says Hispanic Immigrants Are Lost Cause for GOP. "I think folks are really susceptible to the call for government to provide anything from your housing to your food to your education." http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/population-2043/south-carolina-republican-says-hispanic-immigrants-are-lost-cause-for-gop-20140717 14 comments politics
- Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/12/european-coal-pollution-premature-deaths 42 comments europe
- General Forrest's KKK was the worst terrorist group in our nation's history, and it was explicitly founded to keep ex-slaves in their place. The idea of the Lost Cause itself is an act of shifting historical blame from the evils of chattel slavery to perceived imperial aggression from Yankees. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/19/enough-with-this-lost-cause-nonsense.html 3 comments politics
- "The names of the untold hundreds of thousands put to the blade by nominally Christian generals have been lost to history – but their deaths and their neighbors’ fearful conversion were no different from the converts won and deaths caused in Islam’s early spread." http://www.tremblethedevil.com/2009/12/434.html 2 comments history