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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
A row of Supreme Court justices.

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
The Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C.

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
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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
John Adams

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
People in formal wear sitting in chairs, listening to a person behind a desk

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 in a suit

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
Painting of a worried child and a despairing mother.

With Friends Like These

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 4, 2020
Tiled pattern of 2020 presidential campaign signs.

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

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020
Toppled Howitzers Monument in Richmond, VA

American Oligarchy

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."
by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on June 23, 2020

Our First Authoritarian Crackdown

A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on June 23, 2020

We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 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
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Bernie Sanders’s Campaign is Over, but His Populist Ideas Will Survive

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.
by Robert B. Mitchell via Made By History on April 9, 2020

John Sherman’s Struggle to Preserve Democracy

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.
by Daniel W. Crofts via Muster on March 17, 2020

4 Contested Conventions in Presidential Election History

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.
by Lesley Kennedy via HISTORY on March 4, 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
Presidential candidates after a Democratic primary debate.
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South Carolina May Well Determine Whether Democrats Can Win the Presidency

Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.
by Robert Greene II via Made By History on February 28, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020
A drawing in the style of a 1980s video game of shooting at rainbows.

Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 19, 2020
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Why the Iowa Caucuses May Elevate an Underdog

History shows that this blockbuster event is merely a test of organizational strength in one small state.
by Amber Roessner via Made By History on February 3, 2020

Civility Is Overrated

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019
Map of 1796 presidential election electoral votes by state.
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The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 7, 2019

When Adding New States Helped the Republicans

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.
by Heather Cox Richardson via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019
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