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The Politics of a Second Gilded Age
Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
by
Matthew Karp
via
Jacobin
on
February 17, 2021
Rhyme, Not Repetition
All that’s past isn’t necessarily present.
by
Jon Zobenica
via
The American Scholar
on
June 3, 2024
Founding-Era History Doesn’t Support Trump’s Immunity Claim
Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.
by
Rosemarie Zagarri
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Holly Brewer
via
Brennan Center For Justice
on
February 21, 2024
Trump's 'Lost Cause,' a Kind of Gangster Cult, Won't Go Away
Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.
by
David W. Blight
via
Los Angeles Times
on
January 14, 2024
Exhibit
Election of 2020
A look back at what historians have had to say about this epic contest over the nation's future.
Keeping Speech Robust and Free
Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.
by
Jeffrey Toobin
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 7, 2023
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
by
Andrew Marantz
via
The New Yorker
on
June 5, 2023
The Dark Side of Defamation Law
A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?
by
Jeannie Suk Gersen
via
The New Yorker
on
May 11, 2023
The Modern Electoral History of Transphobia
How transphobia has been a consistent liability for Republicans, and why the right refuses to give it up.
by
Ettingermentum
via
Ettingermentum Newsletter
on
March 18, 2023
January 6 Committee Final Public Meeting
Video testimony and evidence presented by the House Select Committee to recommend criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.
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U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack
via
PBS NewsHour
on
December 19, 2022
partner
Trump’s Call to Suspend the Constitution Betrays the Lawlessness of Law and Order
Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
Made By History
on
December 15, 2022
partner
Our Urban/Rural Political Divide is Both New — And Decades In The Making
Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.
by
Guian McKee
via
Made By History
on
October 8, 2021
How to Steal an American Election
From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
January 28, 2021
Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction
The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.
by
Eric Foner
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Isaac Chotiner
via
The New Yorker
on
January 13, 2021
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
by
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
via
Dissent
on
January 10, 2021
The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy
True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
January 7, 2021
The Dangerous Historical Precedent for Ted Cruz’s Shameless Electoral College Gambit
The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.
by
Matt Ford
via
The New Republic
on
January 5, 2021
The GOP Test
History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?
by
Sean Wilentz
via
Democracy Journal
on
November 12, 2020
Biden's 2020 Election Win Over Trump is Step One. But 'Lame Ducks' Can Do Damage.
Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.
by
William Adler
via
NBC News
on
November 8, 2020
What Jaime Harrison's Race Meant for the South
Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.
by
Adam Harris
via
The Atlantic
on
November 4, 2020
partner
Poll Watchers and the Long History of Voter Intimidation
President Trump has called on supporters, including law enforcement officers, to monitor election sites. Voter intimidation tactics have a long history.
via
Retro Report
on
November 1, 2020
Can Biden Be Pushed Left?
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.
by
Bob Master
via
Dissent
on
October 14, 2020
Why is the Nationalist Right Hallucinating a ‘Communist Enemy’?
Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.
by
Richard Seymour
via
The Guardian
on
September 26, 2020
The Supreme Court’s Starring Role in Democracy’s Demise
With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.
by
Carol Anderson
via
Boston Globe
on
September 6, 2020
partner
Even After Their Fearmongering Proves Wrong, Republicans Keep at It. Here’s Why.
For close to a century, conservatives have seen all government programs as the road to socialism.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
Made By History
on
August 31, 2020
A Disputed Election, a Constitutional Crisis, Polarisation… Welcome to 1876
Eric Foner sees parallels with our own time but warns that yesterday’s solution would be a disaster.
by
Martin Pengelly
via
The Guardian
on
August 23, 2020
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden
Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong.
by
Alex Thompson
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 14, 2020
partner
Critics of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to the Soviet Union Are Distorting It
Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.
by
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
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Yakov Feygin
,
Yana Skorobogatov
via
Made By History
on
March 2, 2020
partner
South Carolina May Well Determine Whether Democrats Can Win the Presidency
Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.
by
Robert Greene II
via
Made By History
on
February 28, 2020
Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.
by
Derek Thompson
via
The Atlantic
on
February 21, 2020
The Fourth Battle for the Constitution
The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.
by
Jeffrey Rosen
via
The Atlantic
on
September 25, 2019
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