WHAT IS AMERICA'S TIMELINE?

America's Timeline is a news almanac. It is not itself a news site but rather a curated collection of news articles from other websites, sorted by topic. Here at America's Timeline, we've been increasing the nation's attention span since 2018.

How you use the information at America's Timeline is ultimately up to you, but we offer a few suggestions:

 

SEE THE WORLD FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

America's Timeline is non-partisan. You will see news stories from all different areas of the political spectrum, allowing you to compare and contrast the viewpoints of different Americans.


JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: POPULIST LEFT

SOURCE: VOX

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

KAVANAUGH LIKELY GIVES COURT THE VOTES TO OVERTURN ROE
As a circuit court judge, Kavanaugh was bound in almost every case to obey Supreme Court precedent faithfully. The Supreme Court, by contrast, can overturn its own precedents. It’s usually hesitant to do so, but just this term it threw out three decades-old rulings.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: ROLLING ST

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

WHY BRETT KAVANAUGH WILL CARRY TRUMP'S WATER
President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, already has signaled that he will be sympathetic to the president’s legal position in the looming court showdown over the Russia investigation.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: FOX NEWS

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

KAVANAUGH BRINGS CLEAR REASONING TO SECOND AMENDMENT
Judge Kavanaugh certainly does offer clarity on this often politically obscured issue. In concise, logical prose Judge Kavanaugh wrote a dissent to a case that followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller v. D.C. decision, which found the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: POPULIST RIGHT

SOURCE: LIFE SITE

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

WOULD KAVANAUGH OVERTURN ROE? RECORD OFFERS MIXED CLUES
Kavanaugh ruled that there was no right for unlawful immigrant minors in detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand, although he based his decision on the theory that the delay didn’t constitute an “undue burden,” whereas Judge Henderson recognized the illegal immigrant had no right to abortion at all.

JUL 11, 2018

POSITION: OTHER

SOURCE: REASON

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

JUDGE KAVANAUGH AND JUSTICE KENNEDY'S FREE SPEECH LEGACY
Justice Anthony Kennedy was the most speech-protective justice on the most speech-protective Supreme Court in our nation's history. The Kavanaugh nomination provides reason to hope that this free speech legacy is secure.

 

SEE HOW AN ISSUE DEVELOPS OVER TIME

It's easy to remember what happened in the news today, but what happened last week? America's Timeline allows you to compare today's news with last week's expectations, so you can watch history unfold right before your eyes.


SEP 5, 2017

POSITION: POPULIST RIGHT

SOURCE: BREITBART

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

JEFF SESSIONS ANNOUNCES DACA DEMISE
DACA will be rescinded by a memorandum from Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke, effective immediately. No current beneficiaries will lose their protected status for six months, but no new applications for DACA status will be taken after Tuesday.

JAN 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: NPR

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS DECISION TO END DACA
The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a request by California and other states to keep DACA going, at least until lawsuits can play out in court. Trump has said that any deal to extend DACA must include plans for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.

JAN 23, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: USA TODAY

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

SCHUMER RESCINDS OFFER TO FUND WALL IN IMMIGRATION DEAL
The Senate's Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, is taking back his offer to President Trump to fund his big beautiful wall. "The wall offer is off the table," he told reporters on Tuesday. "That was part of a package" that's now defunct.

APR 24, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: NY TIMES

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

U.S. MUST KEEP DACA AND ACCEPT NEW APPLICATIONS
Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that the administration’s decision to terminate the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was based on the “virtually unexplained” grounds that the program was “unlawful.”

AUG 18, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: WASH TIMES

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

JUDGE HALTS FULL DACA RESTART
The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era deportation amnesty in full has backed off his decision and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting new applications.

 

SEE WHEN PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR MINDS

Politicans (and sometimes parties) are famous for changing their minds and flip-flopping on important issues. America's Timeline stores a record of their views and promises, so you can hold them accountable.


MAY 18, 2016

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: THE HILL

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

TRUMP SOOTHES THE RIGHT WITH LIST OF SUPREME COURT PICKS
Trump releases a list of eleven potential Supreme Court picks, each of which were endorsed by various conservative groups.

SEP 23, 2016

POSITION: POPULIST RIGHT

SOURCE: LIFE NEWS

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

TRUMP RELEASES 2ND LIST OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEES
Trump released a statement, saying: "This list is definitive and I will choose only from it in picking future Justices of the United States Supreme Court."

NOV 9, 2016

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: WASH POST

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

DONALD TRUMP IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States on Tuesday, stunning many political observers and pollsters.

NOV 17, 2017

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: WALL ST JRN

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

TRUMP ADDS FIVE TO LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR SUPREME COURT
Trump, post-election, adds five potential picks to his list for Supreme Court, including a notable pick, Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

JUL 9, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: FOX NEWS

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

TRUMP NOMINATES BRETT KAVANAUGH TO SUPREME COURT
President Trump nominated Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Monday night to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.