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America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
by Mason B. Williams via Dissent on August 8, 2018
Donald Trump holding up a bill he signed.
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Ceding Power to the Executive is Backfiring on Free-Trade Advocates

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on June 7, 2018
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A Big Tent

Exploring the history of the Democratic Party, from its earliest days through the New Deal, the Long Sixties, and the post-Cold War era.

RFK, in Arthur Schlesinger’s Words

On the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, a glimpse inside one of his closest relationships.
by David Margolick via New York Review of Books on May 31, 2018

Reassessing Woodrow Wilson, the Crusader President

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.
by Jacob Heilbrunn via The American Conservative on May 29, 2018

Full Employment and Freedom

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.
by David Stein via Jacobin on May 25, 2018
Trump speaks to auto workers.

Forget Trump – Populism is the Cure, Not the Disease

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.
by Thomas Frank via The Guardian on May 23, 2018

The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
by Peter-Christian Aigner, Michael Brenes via The New Republic on May 11, 2018

The 19th-Century Election That Predicted the Mueller Mess

After Democrats lost in 1876, they set about investigating the new Republican president — only for everything to backfire.
by Fred Lucas via The American Conservative on March 20, 2018

America Is Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies

It’s unsurprising considering the public careers of today’s political leaders began in the 1970s.
by Michael Barone via National Review on March 2, 2018

Democrats and Republicans Are Increasingly Divided On the Value of Teaching Black History

Partisanship is much more polarized by racial attitudes than it was 20 years ago.
by Michael Tesler via Washington Post on February 28, 2018

William Randolph Hearst for President

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 22, 2018
Historian Timothy Naftali being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on television.
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How Republicans Set the Stage for Trump’s Corrosive Ideas on Immigration

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.
by Rick Baldoz via Made By History on January 13, 2018
Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

The Myth of 'Populism'

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.
by Anton Jäger via Jacobin on January 3, 2018

Rage Against the Machine

An excerpt from a novel by Todd Gitlin that reimagines the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
by Todd Gitlin via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018
Man giving a speech for the Taxpayers League of Minnesota.

Half a Century of Anti-tax Orthodoxy Is Wrong

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.
by Felicia Wong via Boston Review on December 15, 2017
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Worse than Roy Moore?

The congressman who Alabamians later complained "made them the laughing stock of the Union."
by Greg Bailey via HNN on November 28, 2017
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The Supply-Side Swindle

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?
by Brent Cebul on November 17, 2017
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It’s Been 155 Years Since the Senate Expelled a Member. Will Roy Moore Break the Streak?

If he does, it will be a sign of just how repugnant his actions are.
by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 15, 2017
A man being arrested by an LAPD officer outside of a Mexican restaurant.

The Year 1960

City developers, RAND Corps dropouts, Latino activists—and Lena Horne, taking direct action against racism in Beverley Hills.
by Mike Davis via New Left Review on November 15, 2017
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

How to Fight White Backlash

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on November 10, 2017
Obama and Trump in the Oval Office.

Two Cheers for Polarization

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.
by Sam Rosenfeld via Boston Review on October 25, 2017

The Power Historian

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?
by David Marcus via The Nation on October 12, 2017

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.
by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017
Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 20, 2017

Violence Against Members of Congress Has a Long, and Ominous, History

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Washington Post on June 15, 2017
The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.
by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017
A political cartoon showing two figures leading donkeys in opposite directions. The donkeys are depicted with the faces of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay.

Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.
by Philip Wallach via Brookings on March 6, 2017

The Moment That Political Debates on TV Turned to Spectacle

A new documentary explores the infamous 1968 dispute between William Buckley and Gore Vidal.
by Nadine Ajaka via The Atlantic on September 27, 2016
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