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The Question Without a Solution

The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.

by Alan Jacobs via Weekly Standard on November 24, 2018

Man cheering at a political rally while wearing a Trump sticker on his cheesehead hat.

'Tribalism’ Doesn’t Explain Our Political Conflicts

We should look to history – not prehistory – to understand current political challenges.

by Adam Rothman via Washington Post on November 14, 2018

What Thucydides Knew About the US Today

His accounts of polarization in ancient Athens are as relevant today they were thousands of years ago.

by Edward Mendelson via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2018

How History Class Divides Us

What if America's inability to agree on its shared history—and how to teach it—is a cause of our polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom?

by Stephen Sawchuk via Education Week on October 23, 2018

America Descends Into the Politics of Rage

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.

by Joanne B. Freeman via The Atlantic on October 22, 2018

The Man Who Broke Politics

Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.

by McKay Coppins via The Atlantic on October 15, 2018

The Senate Has Lost Its Way

Here's how it's supposed to handle Supreme Court nominations.

by Dov Weinryb Grohsgal via Made By History on October 6, 2018

America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on September 12, 2018

What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 1968

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2018

Convulsions Within: When Printing the Declaration of Independence Turns Partisan

Even America's founding document isn't immune to the powers of polarization.

by Emily Sneff via Age of Revolutions on July 4, 2018

Donald Trump, The Resistance, and the Limits of Normcore Politics

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on July 3, 2018

How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.

by John A. Lawrence via Politico Magazine on May 26, 2018

How Baby Boomers Broke America

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?

by Steven Brill via TIME on May 17, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018

Are the Parties Dying?

A conversation on party politics and the durability of our current political system.

by Christopher Caldwell, Michael Kazin, Frances Lee, David Karol via Democracy Journal on March 19, 2018

Democrats and Republicans Are Increasingly Divided On the Value of Teaching Black History

Partisanship is much more polarized by racial attitudes than it was 20 years ago.

by Michael Tesler via Washington Post on February 28, 2018

LBJ’s 1968 State of the Union Was a Disaster. Can President Trump Avoid His Fate?

For unpopular presidents, the State of the Union is a minefield.

by Kyle Longley via Made By History on January 30, 2018

Democracy Is Norm Erosion

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.

by Corey Robin via Jacobin on January 29, 2018

Bad Boys

How “Cops” became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.

by Tim Stelloh via The Marshall Project on January 22, 2018

High school student in Shreveport.

Taking a Knee and Taking Down a Monument

The struggle over Shreveport's Confederate monument converges with talk about a national anthem protest by high-schoolers.

by Brent McDonald via New York Times Op-Docs on January 9, 2018

The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars

From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.

by Julia Ioffe via The Atlantic on October 21, 2017

Is the American Idea Doomed?

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.

by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 18, 2017

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

First grade teacher instructing Spanish pronunciation in Texas.

Helping Latino Kids Succeed in the Classroom Doesn’t Have to be an Ideological War

Conservatives backed bilingual education until it became a progressive cause.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Made By History on September 21, 2017

Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

by Robin Wright via The New Yorker on August 14, 2017

Mitch McConnell

Partisanship is an American Tradition — And Good for Democracy

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.

by Aaron Astor via Made By History on July 12, 2017

Why Do They Hate Her?

Hillary Clinton is the most maligned presidential loser in history. What’s going on?

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 3, 2017

How Conservatives Waged a War on Expertise

Donald Trump is not the first person to gain power by questioning, undermining, and delegitimizing once-trusted institutions.

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Public Books on May 15, 2017

Divided We Fall

We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.

by Ganesh Sitaraman via The New Republic on April 10, 2017

When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

by Sam Tanenhaus via Esquire on April 5, 2017

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