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The Ballot and the Break

Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.

Yosemite and the Future of the National Park

The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.

I’m a Depression Historian. The GOP Tax Bill is Straight Out of 1929.

Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.
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The Supply-Side Swindle

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?
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It’s Been 155 Years Since the Senate Expelled a Member. Will Roy Moore Break the Streak?

If he does, it will be a sign of just how repugnant his actions are.
Putin and Trump.

Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.
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"What is Sport to You is Death to Us."

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.
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Donald Trump, Swamp Creature

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.
Obama and Trump in the Oval Office.

Two Cheers for Polarization

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.

Hating on Herbert Hoover

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?

Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
First grade teacher instructing Spanish pronunciation in Texas.
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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.
Demonstrators protesting new history curriculum
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How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

Forrest the Butcher

Memphis wants to remove a statue honoring first grand wizard of the KKK.

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.
Woman with a flower.

The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.
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A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before.

It ended in disaster.
Flag in front of a church.

What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.
Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

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

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

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.
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NAFTA Policy Reveals a Distinction Between Trump, Ross Perot, and Patrick Buchanan

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.

How Reagan’s EPA Chief Paved the Way for Trump’s Assault on the Agency

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.
U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.

Expanding the Slaveocracy

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
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The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?

Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
U.S. President George W. Bush holds a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington July 15, 2008.

George W. Bush's White House "Lost" 22 Million Emails

The outrage and press coverage was nothing compared with that surrounding Hillary Clinton's emails.

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