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President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

by Oscar Winberg via Made By History on October 16, 2017

History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

by Michael Waldman, Cliff Sloan via Washington Post on October 1, 2017

What’s Hidden Behind The Walls Of America’s Prisons

Prisons today undergo criticism but in the 19th and the 20th century prisons treated their inmates as "slaves of the state.”

by Heather Ann Thompson via The Conversation on June 4, 2017

Why Federal Employees Can Thank FDR for Some Restrictions on Their Tweets

The Hatch Act was crafted in response to New Deal-era political maneuvering.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on April 3, 2017

Free from the Government

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

by Joseph M. Adelman via We're History on January 17, 2017

When W. E. B. Du Bois was Un-American

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

by Andrew Lanham via Boston Review on January 13, 2017

Freedom vs. Liberty: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Chose One Over the Other

Religious "freedom" and "liberty" have always had different connotations.

by Stephanie Russell-Kraft via Religion Dispatches on October 12, 2016

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Going Negative

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.

by Thomas Healy via Boston Review on November 12, 2015

Full text of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, etched in stone.

What Does It Mean To Make America "Christian?"

The "Christian Amendment" and the push for Christianity to be established as the national religion of the United States.

by Charles Louis Richter via (Ir)religion In America on February 26, 2015

How Corrupt Are Our Politics?

A review of Zephyr Teachout's "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United."

by David Cole via New York Review of Books on September 25, 2014

Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy.

Died on the 4th of July

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

by Stephen B. Tippins via The American Conservative on July 3, 2012

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