From the guidelines [1]: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The recent ne

From the guidelines [1]: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The recent news in the US might qualify as "some interesting new phenomenon" in a sense, but there's plenty of places to read about that elsewhere. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html