Curated playlist
Presidency of Barack Obama
- 2008 United States presidential electionShortly before midnight Eastern Time on the 4th of November 2008, Barack Obama stepped onto a stage in Grant Park, Chicago, and faced a crowd of 250,000 people. The 2008 United States presidential election had just been decided in his…
- Iraq WarThe Iraq War's main reason, weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be false.
- North American Free Trade AgreementOn the day the NAFTA trade deal began, an armed militia seized five municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico.
- SPEECH ActA British lawsuit over a book on terrorism financing sparked the 2010 SPEECH Act. Rachel Ehrenfeld lost the case.
- Sandy Hook Elementary School shootingThe Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 2012 left 26 people dead. Twenty of them were children, all six or seven years old. The other six were adult staff members, and every one of them…
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)The war in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 to 2021, and it became the longest war in United States military history. It ran six months longer than the Vietnam War. A United States-led coalition launched it under the name Operation Enduring…
- 2008 financial crisisBen Bernanke told Congress in 2008 that there might not be an economy left by Monday.
- New STARTNew START's end leaves the US and Russia with no binding nuclear limits for the first time since the early 1970s.
- Pulse nightclub shootingPulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was winding down its weekly Latin Night at around 2:00 a.m. on the 12th of June 2016. Last call had been announced, and about 320 people were still inside. The Saturday event drew a mostly Latino…
- Guantanamo Bay detention campThe Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison on the coast of southeastern Cuba. On the 11th of January 2002, military guards brought the first twenty detainees to a temporary compound there called Camp X-Ray. Over…
- Tea Party movementWithin roughly ten hours of a trading-floor rant, a Tea Party protest website existed. It was called reTeaParty.com.
- Second Cold WarIn May 1998, George Kennan warned that expanding NATO was "the beginning of a new cold war".
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.