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Political cartoon of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis pulling apart a US map while McClellan tries to hold them together.

Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It’s Not More Divisive

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.
by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on January 19, 2018

Mapping the First Decade of Congressional Elections

Using maps to visualize the first five U.S. Congressional elections.
by Sheila Brennan via Mapping Early American Elections on December 13, 2017

The Ballot and the Break

Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.
by Eric Blanc via Jacobin on December 4, 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

Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse than Watergate

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.
by James Fallows via The Atlantic on May 12, 2017
Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.
by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972
Black and white photo of Charles B. Warren from 1924.

The Last Time the Senate Rejected a President's Cabinet Nominee of the Same Party

It hasn't happened for 100 years.
by Simmone Shah via TIME on November 21, 2024
Photo of Framer James A. Bayard then a modern day photo of Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

How Past and Present Catch Up With Each Other

The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.
by James M. Banner Jr. via The Panorama on October 23, 2024
Donald Trump speaks at a rally in July in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
by Sean T. Byrnes via Dissent on September 23, 2024
A collage of the Eugene V. Debbs museum and advertisements for his presidential campaign from prison inside the museums collection.

‘Unless Jesus Christ Was Running’: In MAGA Country, Post-Verdict Trump is Still the Answer

Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. His former bellwether county — and museum — both hold lessons for Trump’s campaign.
by Adam Wren via Politico on June 3, 2024
A ballot from Ireland’s 2020 general election.

Avoiding the PR Mistakes of the Past

The proportional representation (PR) vs. single transferable vote (STV) battle in local elections.
by Jack Santucci via Democracy Journal on September 12, 2023
Harry Truman speaking at the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

The 1948 Democratic National Convention Is the Missing Link in Civil Rights History

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality
by Samuel G. Freedman via Smithsonian on July 19, 2023
Voter registration at the Brookfield Conference Center in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield on Nov. 8.
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Suburbs Have Moved Leftward — Except Around Milwaukee

A far right politics that developed in the middle of the 20th century has prevented Democrats from gaining as they have in suburbs elsewhere.
by Ian Toller-Clark via Made By History on April 14, 2023
Painting of a plantation.

The Old South Shall Rise Again

On the economic system of Silicon Valley.
by Victor Davis Hanson via The New Criterion on August 24, 2022
Black and white photo of John Maynard Keynes and wife Lydia Lopokova

Left, Right and Keynes

Today's centrists are a hot mess.
by Zachary D. Carter via In The Long Run on September 23, 2021

How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 27, 2020
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How Biden vs. Sanders Echoes a 1964 Republican Party Split

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the icons of an ideological split among today’s Democrats, echoing a similar split in the Republican party of 1964.
by Matt Spolar, Sianne Garlick, Karen M. Sughrue via Retro Report on March 4, 2020

This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.
by Jane Chong via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

"He Lies Like a Dog": The First Effort to Impeach a President Was Led by His Own Party

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.
by Ronald G. Shafer via Washington Post on September 23, 2019
President Lyndon B. Johnson with members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, including Otto Kerner.

The 1968 Kerner Report was a Watershed Document on Race in America—and it Did Very Little

After the urban unrest of the Long Hot Summer, a commission was formed.
by Jamil Smith via Timeline on August 18, 2017
Delegates on the floor at the Democratic National Convention at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, August 26, 1964.

How to Steal an Election

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016
Poet-playwright and political activist Imamu Amiri Baraka recites his poem, "Its Nation Time," at the National Black Political Convention.
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The Black Political Convention

Black Journal interviews with Imamu Amiri Baraka, poet-playwright and co-chairman of the National Black Political Convention.
by Black Journal via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 28, 1972
Portrait of Charles Sumner

First in War, First in Nepotism

In 1872, Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”
by Charles Sumner via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 31, 1872

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