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America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods Have Changed. So Must Solutions to Rectify Them

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?
by Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger via Brookings on October 14, 2019

What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019

How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be So Long?

U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.
by Rachel Caufield via The Conversation on July 30, 2019

Biden’s Defense Of Anti-Busing Past Distorts History Of Segregation In Delaware

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Talking Points Memo on July 18, 2019
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Election of 2020

A look back at what historians have had to say about this epic contest over the nation's future.

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on July 16, 2019

Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, and Places in History

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.
by Sean Wilentz via The New Yorker on July 11, 2019
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How School Desegregation Became the Third Rail of Democratic Politics

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.
by Matt Delmont, Jeanne Theoharis via Made By History on July 8, 2019

Haunted by the Reagan Era

Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation.
by Ryan Grim via Washington Post on July 5, 2019

Why Pete Buttigieg's Theory About Secretly Gay Presidents Is Complicated

Buttigieg believes he probably won’t be the first gay president if he’s elected in 2020.
by Jasmine Aguilera via TIME on June 18, 2019

When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists

The candidate’s years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.
by Jonathan Kozol via The Nation on June 6, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.
by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 2019

Bernie, the Sandinistas, and America's Long Crisis of Impunity

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Mother Jones on May 30, 2019
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Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.
via BackStory on May 24, 2019
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When Socialists Swept Milwaukee

Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won’t be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
by Lindsey Anderson via Belt Magazine on May 21, 2019

The Consequences of Forgetting

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on May 7, 2019

Here’s How Deep Biden’s Busing Problem Runs

And why the Democrats can’t use it against him.
by Brett Gadsden via Politico Magazine on May 5, 2019

‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s TV Show.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.
by Holly Otterbein via Politico Magazine on May 3, 2019
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A Brief History of Slavery Reparation Promises

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.
by John Torpey via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.
by Jesús A. Rodríguez via Politico Magazine on April 9, 2019

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists — and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”
by John Nichols via The Nation on April 2, 2019

168 Days: Recalling an Old-Fashioned Court Packing Drama

After months of political maneuvering, intrigue, backroom bargaining, and furious oratory, the fate of FDR's plan was clear.
by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on March 27, 2019

Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong

Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.
by Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on March 20, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes the Vietnam war at a speech at University of Minnesota in 1967.
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Centrism and Moderation? No Thanks.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.
by April Holm via Made By History on February 27, 2019

What Presidential Announcements Reveal About the Candidates

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.
by John Dickerson via The Atlantic on February 18, 2019
Painting depicting Cherokee people riding, walking, and driving wagons on the Trail of Tears.

“Work of Barbarity”: An Eyewitness Account of the Trail of Tears

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.
by Evan Jones, Matthew Dessem via Slate on February 10, 2019
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Why Billionaires With Big Egos Now Dream of Being President

The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.
by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer via Washington Post on January 29, 2019

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