Curated playlist
Presidency of Joe Biden
- Inflation Reduction ActThe Inflation Reduction Act was revived in secret two weeks after talks were declared dead.
- 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…
- New STARTNew START's end leaves the US and Russia with no binding nuclear limits for the first time since the early 1970s.
- JuneteenthJuneteenth marks the day enslaved Texans learned they were free, 900 days after the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 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…
- Second Cold WarIn May 1998, George Kennan warned that expanding NATO was "the beginning of a new cold war".
- Uvalde school shootingThe Uvalde school shooting began on the 24th of May 2022, when an 18-year-old former student named Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 students and 2 teachers. Law enforcement officers killed him 77…
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United StatesA woman in Santa Clara County died of COVID-19 by February 6, 2020. The CDC did not confirm her death until April 21.
- 2023 Lewiston shootingsThe 2023 Lewiston shootings began at 6:54 p.m. on the 25th of October 2023, inside a bowling alley in Maine. A youth league event was under way at Just-In-Time Recreation when 40-year-old Robert Card walked in. The first emergency call…