Election of 1980 — Bunk History

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Joe Biden Is Not Jimmy Carter, and This Is Not the 1970s

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.

by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on October 16, 2021

An illustration featuring Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The John Birch Society Never Left

Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe.

by Rick Perlstein, Edward H. Miller via The New Republic on March 8, 2021

Harry S. Truman holding up a newspaper with the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman"

Why Americans Will Never Turn Against Polling

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

by Rebecca Onion, W. Joseph Campbell via Slate on November 5, 2020

A women in a newsroom covering the election

Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, but That’s Bad for Democracy

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Made By History on November 3, 2020

President smiling at a debate

Debating. Ourselves.

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

by Paul Orlando via 3 Quarks Daily on October 5, 2020

Jimmy Carter speaking.

What Happens When a President Really Listens?

Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter ditching politics for truth.

by Jonathan Alter via Literary Hub on September 30, 2020

Donald Trump

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

Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 26, 2020

Man at Trump rally holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign.

On the Past and Future of Hispanic Republicans

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”

by Geraldo Cadava, Rosina Lozano via Public Books on June 15, 2020

Will Urban Uprisings Help Trump? Actually, They Could Be His Undoing.

As a historian, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the fallout from Watts and other rebellions.

by Rick Perlstein via Mother Jones on May 31, 2020

An Oral History of the Members Only Jacket

On the fixture of white yuppiedom and icon of post-ironic millennial hipsterdom.

by Andrew Fiouzi via MEL on March 7, 2020

Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.

by Dave Zirin via The Nation on February 24, 2020

How Carter's '80 SOTU Unleashed America's 'World Police'

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.

by Edward D. Change via The American Conservative on February 4, 2020

The Right’s “Judeo-Christian” Fixation

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.

by Udi Greenberg via The New Republic on November 14, 2019

Black and white photo of the Libertarian Party’s 1980 presidential candidate, Ed Clark, center, with his running mate, David H. Koch.

How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality

Koch poured $2 million into an embryonic Libertarian Party to buoy his run for vice president. He knew he wouldn't win—but that wasn't the point.

by Adam Eichen via The New Republic on August 27, 2019

What We Get Wrong About the Southern Strategy

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

by Angie Maxwell via Made By History on July 26, 2019

How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on February 10, 2019

The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

by Hannes Grassegger via BuzzFeed News on January 20, 2019

Franklin Roosevelt on the campaign trail.

The Left is Pushing Democrats to Embrace Their Greatest President. It’s a Good Thing.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on January 14, 2019

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018

Lithograph of John Winthrop.

What We Get Wrong About ‘A City on Hill’

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

by Daniel T. Rodgers via Made By History on November 13, 2018

James Baldwin.

James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

Baldwin's often overlooked final years of activism during the 1980's.

by Aderson François via Black Perspectives on September 20, 2018

Here's Why Republicans' Disturbing Romance With the Racist Confederacy Is so Troubling

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via AlterNet on August 17, 2018

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

The Reagan Democrat Delusion

Whenever Democrats lose votes, pundits crow that they've lost the working class. Not so, though they have alienated unions.

by Michael Paarlberg via The Guardian on November 16, 2010

The Carter Doctrine

Carter’s speech heralded a dramatic shift in foreign policy toward a policy of containment of Soviet influence.

via Voices & Visions on January 23, 1980

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