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What the Election of Asian American GOP Women Means For the Party
While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.
by
Jane H. Hong
via
Made By History
on
March 8, 2021
The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
by
Mick Dumke
via
ProPublica
on
February 25, 2021
The Politics of a Second Gilded Age
Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
by
Matthew Karp
via
Jacobin
on
February 17, 2021
It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy
The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Chris Maisano
via
Jacobin
on
February 16, 2021
America Must Become a Democracy
The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.
by
David Frum
via
The Atlantic
on
February 15, 2021
American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
by
Vann R. Newkirk II
via
The Atlantic
on
February 11, 2021
The Case for a Third Reconstruction
The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice.
by
Manisha Sinha
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 3, 2021
Backlash Forever
It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
Dissent
on
February 1, 2021
Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'
For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.
by
Angie Maxwell
,
Benjamin Barber
via
Facing South
on
January 22, 2021
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy
Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
by
Vanessa Williamson
via
Dissent
on
January 11, 2021
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
by
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
via
Dissent
on
January 10, 2021
The Real History of Race and the New Deal
Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.
by
Matthew Yglesias
via
Slow Boring
on
December 11, 2020
The Past and Future of the Left in the Democratic Party
Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.
by
Michael Brenes
,
Michael Koncewicz
via
The Nation
on
December 9, 2020
Republicans Rediscover the Dangers of Selling Bunk to Their Constituents
Cynical public speech aimed at winning political power has consequences.
by
Rachel Shelden
via
The Atlantic
on
November 25, 2020
The Presidential Transition That Shattered America
A Trump-Biden transition is sure to be scary. But it’d be hard to beat Buchanan-Lincoln.
by
Rebecca Onion
,
Susan Schulten
via
Slate
on
October 28, 2020
“If Anybody Says Election to Me, I Want to Fight”
The messy election of 1876.
by
Jon Grinspan
via
Perspectives on History
on
October 19, 2020
Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy
Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.
by
Samuel Moyn
,
Ryan D. Doerfler
via
The New Republic
on
October 13, 2020
Amid National Crises, Lincoln and His Republicans Remade the Supreme Court to Fit Their Agenda
Political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
via
The Conversation
on
October 12, 2020
Why History Shows 'Court Packing' Isn't Extreme
Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.
by
Nicole Hemmer
via
CNN
on
October 12, 2020
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by
Jeet Heer
via
The Nation
on
October 6, 2020
On the Peaceful Transfer of Power
Lessons from 1800.
by
Sara Georgini
via
Perspectives on History
on
September 29, 2020
The Supreme Court Used To Be Openly Political. It Traded Partisanship For Power.
The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.
by
Rachel Shelden
via
Washington Post
on
September 25, 2020
Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?
The system that is nobody’s first choice.
by
Michael Kazin
via
The Nation
on
September 22, 2020
Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy
Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.
by
Shawn Gude
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2020
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden
Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong.
by
Alex Thompson
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 14, 2020
With Friends Like These
On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
by
Julia Rose Kraut
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 4, 2020
How Candidate Diversity Impacts Color Diversity
We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.
by
Champe Barton
via
The Pudding
on
August 1, 2020
The Death of Hannah Fizer
Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
by
Barbara J. Fields
,
Adam Rothman
via
Dissent
on
July 24, 2020
Lincoln’s Paramilitaries, the “Wide Awakes,” Helped Bring About a Political Revolution
In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
via
Jacobin
on
July 11, 2020
The Past and Future of Latinx Politics
Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.
by
Ed Morales
via
The Nation
on
June 30, 2020
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