Professor Floros
2023.07: Happy Birthday, UIC Radio!
Updated: Mar 2

UIC Radio
Events from 2000-2022
2000: Bush v. Gore

Case information from Oyez
Current Supreme Court justices who worked on Bush v. Gore
Bush v. Gore lawyers teamed up in 2012 to fight California's Prop 8, which prohibited same-sex couples from marrying in California

Analysis 10 years later on 2000 voting in Florida
2001: Terrorist attacks on 9/11

2002: Debut of Euro currency

2003: Invasion of Iraq


2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami

How the tsunami helped end a war (Reliefweb)
2005: Hurricane Katrina

Anderson Cooper 360 coverage after Michael Brown calls out Cooper for his reporting:
2006: North Korean Nuclear Test

New York Times article reporting about the test
2007: Release of the iPhone

Macworld's review of the original iPhone
2008: Barack Obama Elected US' First Black President


2009: Sonia Sotomayor Becomes a Supreme Court Justice

Sonya Sotomayor's 1995 Baseball Ruling (NPR)
2010: Earthquake in Haiti

2011: Arab Spring


Tunisia
Looking back on the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, 10 years later (The Guardian)
New President (since 2019) suspended Parliament and is ruling by decree
2012: Washington State and Colorado Legalize Recreational Marijuana

Information on drug scheduling from the Drug Enforcement Agency
2013: Boston Marathon Bombing

2014: Russian Annexation of Crimea

2015: Obergefell v. Hodges

Case information from Oyez
New York Times story announcing the decision
Respect for Marriage Act (2022) becomes law
2016: Donald Trump Elected US President


2017: Over Half of Americans Listen to Podcasts

Of course, I can't recreate the search I conducted to create my list (and didn't save the tabs - lesson learned), so I can't find a good source for this entry. Of course, I found a lot of sites that suggest that fewer than half of Americans listen to podcasts. However, just so you know that I didn't completely make this up, here is a site I found that backs up this claim, though I'm not going to buy the videos to check their sources.
Podcast listeners are "intellectually curious" and "less neurotic" than social media users.
2018: Turkey Invades Northern Syria

Foreign Policy analysis of the challenge for Turkey after taking control of Afrin in Syria.
2019: Protests in Hong Kong

The Atlantic gallery of photos of the protests
2020: Murder of George Floyd

NPR story about George Floyd's death being ruled a homicide.
2021: Insurrection at the US Capitol

Trump's Second Impeachment
Video of each day of the impeachment trial in the Senate
Timeline of Trump's second impeachment (New York Times)
Capitol Breach Cases, including current status and information on convictions and sentences
Summary of arrests, charges, convictions, etc. as of Feb. 6, 2023
Independent State Legislature (ISL) "Theory"/Moore v. Harper
Summary of Moore v. Harper on Oyez
By the way, I was wrong. Moore is the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, not the Governor of North Carolina.
SCOTUS Blog analysis after oral arguments in Moore v. Harper
ISL in Bush v Gore, via former Chief Justice William Rehnquist
ISL explained by the Brennan Center for Justice
ISL explained by Democracy Docket
Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch thought the court should have taken up ISL in March 2022 when Moore appealed to the Supreme Court to prevent the NC State Supreme Court's map from going into effect for the 2022 midterm election. The NC Court had ruled that the map created by the legislature violated NC's constitution due to the extreme gerrymandering employed and drew "fairer" maps that weren't skewed in Republicans' favor. While the US Supreme Court refused to grant the stay (which would have reverted to the gerrymandered maps), Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch disagreed. See here, starting on pg. 3.
2022: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case information from Oyez
Views of Americans on abortion access from CNN