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- What’s the Matter with American Cities? https://commonedge.org/whats-the-matter-with-american-cities/ 2 comments
- White House calls police shootings of African-Americans a 'local matter' https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/28/white-house-african-american-shootings-489850 19 comments politics
- Americans don't expect much from their next president, no matter who it is http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-voter-attitudes-poll-20160818-snap-story.html 9 comments politics
- #Millennials don’t matter much in American politics http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/14/millennials-dont-matter-much-in-american-politics/ 12 comments politics
- Does it matter Americans have rejected Sarah Palin? http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/01/19/does-it-matter-americans-have-rejected-sarah-palin/ 9 comments politics
- American support for impeaching Trump rises to 45% amid Ukraine matter: Reuters/Ipsos poll https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-poll/american-support-for-impeaching-trump-rises-to-45-amid-ukraine-matter-reuters-ipsos-poll-iduskbn1wf27p 70 comments politics
- American public's support for impeaching Trump rises to 45% amid Ukraine matter https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-poll/american-publics-support-for-impeaching-trump-rises-to-45-amid-ukraine-matter-reuters-ipsos-iduskbn1wf27p 25 comments politics
- Trump’s Personal Scandals Matter More Than Bill Clinton’s Did To Americans, Poll Shows http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-personal-scandals-matter-more-bill-clintons-did-americans-poll-shows-829231 270 comments politics
- Israel to American Jews: You Just Don’t Matter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/opinion/israel-american-jews-benjamin-netanyahu.html 99 comments politics
- Stop sucking up to ‘gun culture.’ Americans who don’t have guns also matter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/02/26/stop-sucking-up-to-gun-culture-americans-who-dont-have-guns-also-matter/?utm_term=.f3045ec95fec 2713 comments politics
- Support For Black Lives Matter Surged During Protests, But Is Waning Among White Americans https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/support-for-black-lives-matter-surged-during-protests-but-is-waning-among-white-americans/ 21 comments politics
- From Black Lives Matter to the Fight for $15: Why Americans Are in Revolt https://www.thenation.com/article/sarah-jaffe-qa/ 5 comments politics
- WorldViews American isolationism just hit a 50-year high. Why that matters. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/04/american-isolationism-just-hit-a-50-year-high-why-that-matters/ 3 comments politics
- Black Guns Matter teaches Black Americans how to use firearms https://www.businessinsider.com/black-guns-matter-maj-toure-second-amendment-2020-6 27 comments politics
- Sen. Whitehouse: "This American Government of ours should never be on its knees before corporate power, no matter how strong. It should never be in the thrall of corporate wealth, no matter how vast." http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/karoli/sheldon-whitehouse 30 comments politics
- Trump’s Blackwater pardons are the latest sign Iraqi lives don’t matter to Americans https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/24/trump-blackwater-pardons-iraqi-lives/ 108 comments politics
- The Supreme Court's 'gay cake' case matters to all Americans http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/363285-the-supreme-courts-gay-cake-case-matters-to-all-americans 20 comments politics
- Repealing Obamacare could be a matter of life or death for many Americans. Here are their voices http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-voices-20170109-story.html 6 comments politics
- 64% of Americans oppose genetically modified foods. Of these, 71% believe they should be prohibited no matter the risks and benefits http://pps.sagepub.com/content/11/3/315.abstract?rss=1 83 comments science
- Asian Americans' Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Complicated History https://time.com/5851792/asian-americans-black-solidarity-history/ 3 comments politics
- American women should take a lesson from Poland if Roe v Wade is overturned | The chipping away of our reproductive rights tells us women don't matter. And if we don't matter, why not walk away from our jobs and our caring responsibilities? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abortion-ban-poland-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-alabama-heartbeat-bill-a8944101.html 11 comments politics
- Health care reform: Saving American lives - Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33213245/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann 13 comments politics
- Black voters matter: Bernie Sanders' 2020 learning curve - After a disastrous performance in 2016, the potential presidential hopeful is taking a whole new approach to African-American voters. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-learning-curve-black-voters-matter-n96150 6 comments politics
- The Election That Mattered: Daley makes the case that if you don’t understand what happened in 2010, you don’t understand something fundamental about why American politics is the way it is today. http://thebaffler.com/blog/election-that-mattered-denison 6 comments politics
- Gaza is showing that American Jewish organizations will support Israel no matter what it does. Read the exchange between Bill Moyers and ADL Director Abe Foxman http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/01/exchange_between_bill_moyers_a.html 103 comments politics
- Conyers Demands Special Independant Counsel in CIA Tape Investigation because "the American people will be denied — as they were in the Valerie Plame matter" http://judiciary.house.gov/newscenter.aspx?a=907 3 comments politics
- Why it matters that Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary this week | The country has become a model for a rising kind of authoritarianism. So, of course, the American right’s most popular cable host is embracing it. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/8/5/22607465/tucker-carlson-hungary-orban-authoritarianism-democracy-backsliding 117 comments politics
- Colin Kaepernick's former team flies Black Lives Matter flag next to American flag at stadium https://sports.yahoo.com/colin-kaepernicks-former-team-flies-black-lives-matter-flag-at-stadium-190208015.html 9 comments politics
- Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World | This is not a trivial matter. Any fool can push the stock market to unsustainable levels. One has simply to print a lot of money or to go deeply into debt. https://www.globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-american-tragedy/5692916 35 comments economy
- Study identifies factors that predict opposition to the Black Lives Matter Movement. The study looked at a nationally representative sample of Americans to identify factors related to individuals (e.g., political affiliation, gender) and states (e.g., voting patterns) that predict opposition to BLM. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/cajr-sif101818.php 24 comments science
- Why the American empire has lost control—and its failure is imminent: "Put it this way: nations have lost control of their own economies, in essence. So it doesn’t matter what people want. There is no way to vote against the global interests of Goldman Sachs or ExxonMobil. You can’t do it." https://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/why-the-american-empire-has-lost-control-and-its-failure-is-imminent/ 184 comments economy
- Black Lives Matter Activists Declare Solidarity with Palestine. "We, the black American signatories of this advertisement, are in complete solidarity with our Palestinian bothers and sisters, who, like us, are struggling for self-determination and an end to racist oppression" http://inthesetimes.com/article/18505/palestinian-lives-matter-too-blm-activists-draw-international-connections 26 comments worldnews
- Airborne particulate matter wafting off American cattle yards contains antibiotics, bacteria, and antibiotic-resistant DNA, a new study finds http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/blowin-in-the-wind-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-from-cattle-are-now-airborne/ 27 comments science
- Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying -- Congress can only legislate in the dark. It's time for Congress to investigate these matters to the fullest extent possible. American privacy should not be held hostage by secrecy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/bills-fail-fix-unconstitutional-nsa-spying 11 comments politics
- The economy that matters is measured by whether enough Americans hold decent jobs, not the Dow Jones Industrial Average http://otherwords.org/prosperity-for-all/ 77 comments politics
- Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt - Medical debt & bankruptcy are uniquely American experiences among wealthy nations. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15191-access-to-health-care-basic-necessities-a-matter-of-life-or-debt 6 comments politics
- In truth, the assault weapons ban never had much of a chance, no matter what Feinstein did or didn’t do. But, by pushing hard for it, Democrats can now go to moderate legislators, and the American people, and argue that broadening background checks is now the compromise position. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/19/the-assault-weapons-ban-was-always-doomed/?wprss=rss_politics#.uujw6jdxpww.reddit 22 comments politics
- Yemeni Blogger: "Our children's blood is not cheaper than American blood and the pain of losing them is just as devastating. Our children matter too, Mr. President! These tragedies 'also' must end and to end them YOU must change!" http://notesbynoon.blogspot.com/2012/12/our-children-matter-too-mr-president.html 10 comments politics
- Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country. "The vast majority -- rich, poor, GOP and Democrat -- imagined a far more equal nation. Here's why it matters." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/americans-want-to-live-in-a-much-more-equal-country-they-just-dont-realize-it/260639/# 7 comments politics
- People who buy 100 or 300 books a year are gone forever. The typical American buys just one book a year for pleasure. Those people are meaningless to a bookstore. It's the heavy users that matter, and now officially, as 2009 ends, they have abandoned the bookstore. It's over. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/its-not-the-rats-you-need-to-worry-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28seth%27s+blog%29 387 comments reddit.com