Images from prominent events of 2024 in the US.
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You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
Is political polarization ripping America apart? Two Supreme Court justices have very different answers.
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The secret recordings of two Supreme Court justices reveal dramatic differences in how they see American political life.
Protesters fill the streets outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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This year, The Conversation celebrated the 50th anniversary of 1968 with its first podcast, ‘Heat and Light.’ These are some of the most interesting stories we uncovered – ones that still resonate in 2018.