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Ross Perot speaks at a podium.

Why Billionaires With Big Egos Now Dream of Being President

The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.

by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer via Washington Post on January 29, 2019

An Inquiry Into Abuse

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.

by Elon Green via Longreads on August 23, 2018

Richard Nixon Probably Would Not Have Been Saved by Fox News

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

by Matt Welch via Reason on May 22, 2018

When the Revolution Was Televised

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on April 1, 2018

The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017

President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

by Oscar Winberg via Made by History on October 16, 2017

Violence Against Members of Congress Has a Long, and Ominous, History

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Washington Post on June 15, 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

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

by John A. Farrell via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017

Men running with their newspapers, one of which says "fake news"

Yellow Journalism: The "Fake News" of the 19th Century

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.

by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on February 21, 2017

Free from the Government

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

by Joseph M. Adelman via We're History on January 17, 2017

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.

by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012

Cartoon of congressmen talking in two insular groups. Illustration by Steve Brodner

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 Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.

by Mark Feldstein via HNN on August 30, 2004

Harrison Gray Otis in superimposed over newspapers and palm trees.

Letter from Los Angeles

The history of the L.A. Times.

by Joan Didion via The New Yorker on February 18, 1990

Joe Biden as a new Senator, sitting next to framed photographs of his family

Death and the All-American Boy

Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.

by Kitty Kelley via Washingtonian on June 1, 1974

Phil Donahue.

Phil Donahue’s Cold War Legacy

The late telejournalist was a pioneer of informal diplomacy between American and Soviet citizens.

by Adriel Kasonta via The American Conservative on September 25, 2024

George Gordon Meade

After Winning the Battle of Gettysburg, George Meade Fought With—and Lost to—the Press

The Civil War general's reputation was shaped by partisan politics, editorial whims and his own personal failings.

by Nicholas Liu via Smithsonian on July 3, 2023

Illustration of Q-Anon vigilantes climbing an electrified letter Q.

QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

by Chris Lehmann via The Nation on February 6, 2023

Timeline of the history of American political parties to 1880, depicting intertwined streams of Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans.

What is Political Realignment?

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the shifting sands of American politics.

by Kathryn Ostrofsky on September 8, 2022

Black and white photo of protestors climbing the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021.

Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?

Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.

by Joshua Zeitz, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Scott Althaus, Matt Cleary, Ryan McMaken via Politico Magazine on August 19, 2022

Black and white photograph of crowd in China holding pictures of Mao Zedong in celebration.

U.S. Relations With China 1949–2022

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

via Council On Foreign Relations on May 26, 2022

Illustration of T. Thomas Fortune

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on April 19, 2022

Handwritten magazine index

‘Index, A History of the’ Review: List-O-Mania

At the back of the book, the index provides a space for reference—and sometimes revenge.

by Ben Yagoda via The Wall Street Journal on February 11, 2022

Cartoon of a large Ronald Reagan leaning on a small Jimmy Carter.

The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

by Jonathan Alter, Timothy Noah, Kai Bird via Washington Monthly on November 8, 2021

Illustration of two women.

Why Norma McCorvey Switched Sides

The perils of turning the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade into a political symbol.

by Marin Cogan via The New Republic on October 11, 2021

Patchwork collage of Joe Biden

All the President’s Historians

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on April 20, 2021

Joseph McCarthy appearing on CBS television

The Cold War on TV: Joseph McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow

In the heat of the Cold War, Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade became a media sensation.

via Retro Report on April 12, 2021

Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.

by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019

AOC and the American Founding

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on January 30, 2019

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