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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
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Esquire
on
April 5, 2017
The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History
Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?
by
Jon Grinspan
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James M. McPherson
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Peter Feuerherd
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Frederic Bancroft
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 22, 2016
The Shifting Symbolism of the Gadsden Flag
How do we decide what the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, or indeed any symbol, really means?
by
Robert J. Walker
via
The New Yorker
on
October 2, 2016
The Moment That Political Debates on TV Turned to Spectacle
A new documentary explores the infamous 1968 dispute between William Buckley and Gore Vidal.
by
Nadine Ajaka
via
The Atlantic
on
September 27, 2016
They Were Made for Each Other
How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.
by
Nicole Hemmer
,
Brent Cebul
via
The New Republic
on
July 11, 2016
The Myth of the 'Reagan Democrat'
The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.
by
Peter Beinart
via
The Atlantic
on
May 28, 2016
The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court
Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.
by
Kevin M. Kruse
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
July 7, 2015
The Empty Chamber
For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.
by
George Packer
via
The New Yorker
on
August 2, 2010
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.
by
Richard Hofstadter
via
Harper’s
on
November 1, 1964
A Balkanized Federation
Without a shared civic narrative – the pursuit of liberal democratic self-government – the rival regional cultures of the United States agree on very little.
via
Nationhood Lab
Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.
by
Perry Anderson
via
London Review of Books
on
March 25, 2025
How Business Metrics Broke the University
The push to make students into customers incentivizes faculty to seek visibility through controversy rather than through traditional scholarly achievement.
by
Hollis Robbins
via
Compact
on
March 18, 2025
How Progressives Broke the Government
Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.
by
Marc J. Dunkelman
via
The Atlantic
on
February 16, 2025
partner
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Historiography
How historians changed their approach, from the 1960s to the present.
by
Gabriel Winant
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HNN
on
February 11, 2025
How Jimmy Carter Became a Cold War Hawk
Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.
by
Seth Ackerman
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Aaron Donaghy
via
Jacobin
on
December 29, 2024
partner
How Trump’s Red Wave Builds on the Past
Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.
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Retro Report
on
November 8, 2024
partner
Why People Should Stop Comparing the U.S. to Weimar Germany
Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.
by
Christine Adams
via
Made By History
on
November 5, 2024
The Late Supreme Court Chief Who Haunts Today’s Right-Wing Justices
William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.
by
Duncan Hosie
via
The New Republic
on
October 23, 2024
The Ghosts of John Tanton
Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation.
by
Abrahm Lustgarten
via
ProPublica
on
October 19, 2024
The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class
The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.
by
Ben Metzner
via
The New Republic
on
October 15, 2024
Hate Burst Out: Chicago, 1968
It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
London Review of Books
on
August 7, 2024
America Has Too Many Laws
An excess of restrictions has taken a very real toll on the lives of everyday Americans. Their stories must be told.
by
Neil Gorsuch
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Janie Nitze
via
The Atlantic
on
August 5, 2024
partner
How Conservatives Changed the Whole Point of American Political Parties
The rise of the right remade the GOP—and fundamentally changed how parties operated in American politics.
by
Daniel Schlozman
,
Sam Rosenfeld
via
Made By History
on
June 10, 2024
Decades After Kent State Shooting, the Tragic Legacy Shapes its Activism
The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.
by
Jonathan Edwards
via
Washington Post
on
May 4, 2024
Talking “Solidarity” With Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.
by
Astra Taylor
,
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
,
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
via
The Nation
on
April 23, 2024
“Freedom on My Mind”: A Symphony of Voices for Civil Rights
This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.
by
Richard Brody
via
The New Yorker
on
February 22, 2024
The Struggle for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Memory
How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.
by
Hajar Yazdiha
via
Contexts Magazine
on
January 15, 2024
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