Events Database

206 historical macro events · 2010–today

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DateEvent
Sep 27, 12How lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business
Sep 25, 12Drone attacks in Pakistan are counterproductive, says report
Sep 24, 12Citizens United accounts for 78% of 2012 election spending, study shows
Sep 20, 12Justice department Fast and Furious investigation clears Eric Holder
Sep 20, 12Eric Holder's exoneration by Fast and Furious report strains credibility
Sep 19, 12ACLU takes CIA to court as agency denies existence of drone programme
Sep 18, 12The Emancipation Proclamation at 150: from civil war to civil rights
Sep 13, 12US citizens' due process rights saved from the NDAA's indefinite detention
Sep 11, 12Another Guantánamo prisoner death highlights Democrats' hypocrisy
Sep 10, 129/11 at 11: the lost United States of 10 September 2001
Sep 8, 12Republican voter ID laws' threat to US civil rights
Aug 30, 12Obama wants to see Citizens United supreme court ruling overturned
Aug 23, 12The Bin Laden raid exposes the Obama administration's selective secrecy
Aug 23, 12We are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited
Aug 14, 12The sickening circularity of America's gun control debate
Aug 11, 12Gay marriage should be a federal priority, not a state ballot option
Aug 10, 12Voter ID laws: the Republican ruse to disenfranchise 5 million Americans
Jul 27, 12Desmond Meade: 'I kind of relate it to slavery'
Jul 27, 12Booker Perry: 'A lot of people don't know the laws'
Jul 26, 12Florida at the forefront as states plan fresh assault on voting rights
Jul 23, 12Having a conviction should not be a bar to voting in the US
Jul 22, 12Iowa governor Terry Branstad defies US supreme court on juvenile sentencing
Jul 21, 12The rights groups that lost the plot on Ecuador and Julian Assange
Jul 20, 12America needs to talk about gun control in the wake of the Colorado shooting
Jul 20, 12Colorado theater shooting: now is not the time for a gun control debate
Jul 19, 12Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arizona's 'Bull' Connor
Jul 18, 12Voter ID laws a burden on poor, black Americans, research shows
Jul 14, 12Texas voter ID law motives questioned during arguments in federal court
Jul 12, 12Mississippi's only abortion clinic will stay open as judge blocks state law
Jul 10, 12The NSA's warrantless wiretapping is a crime, not a state secret
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