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Trump among a group of people with heads bowed in prayer.

Evangelicalism and Politics

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.
by John Fea, Lerone A. Martin, Laura Gifford, R. Marie Griffith via The American Historian on November 30, 2018
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”
by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

A Love Letter to an Extinct Creature: The Liberal Republican

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Washington Post on November 21, 2018
Charles Lindbergh addresses the America First Committee in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1941.

Loaded Phrases

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on November 21, 2018
Frederic Remington illustration of Wounded Knee massacre.

Midterms and Troops: The Bid to Save a Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre

The political context for one of the worst atrocities ever to take place on U.S. soil.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on November 13, 2018

An Obituary for Old Orange County, Dead at Age 129

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018
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The Roots of Evangelicals’ Political Fervor

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.
via Retro Report on October 28, 2018

Fighting to Vote

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.
by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books 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 Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

Trump is Not the First GOP President to Try to Make the Media ‘Fair’

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.
by Nicole Hemmer via Washington Post on August 29, 2018
Protesters with KKK hoods and Goldwater signs.
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How the Right Became Addicted to Conspiracies

The conservative conspiracy lit that paved the way for Donald Trump.
by Nicole Hemmer via Made By History on July 18, 2018

How Conservatives Won the Battle Over the Courts 

The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on July 7, 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

Kevin Kruse vs. Dinesh D'Souza: Dixiecrat Edition

A conservative pundit questioned the prevalence of Dixiecrats switching to the GOP. Historian Kevin Kruse accepted the challenge.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Twitter on July 2, 2018

The New Old Democrats

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.
by Jake Sullivan via Democracy Journal on June 20, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.
by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Revisiting a Transformational Speech: The Culture War Scorecard

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.
by Michael Barone via The American Conservative on May 30, 2018

Roger Goodell’s Father Had a Political Backbone—Why Doesn’t Roger?

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.
by John Nichols via The Nation on May 27, 2018

Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Nation on May 21, 2018
Trump and Kanye.
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Republicans Think Celebrities Can Win Them the Black Vote. They’re Wrong.

Kanye West won't win Trump black support. But it will cost West his.
by Leah Wright Rigueur via Made By History on May 10, 2018
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Thank Sean Hannity for the Trump Presidency

The conservative media made this president, and the conservative media will keep him in office.
by Brian Rosenwald via Made By History on April 23, 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

Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2018
Political cartoon of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis pulling apart a US map while McClellan tries to hold them together.

Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It’s Not More Divisive

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.
by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on January 19, 2018

When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in America

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.
by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via The Atlantic on January 17, 2018
Historian Timothy Naftali being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on television.
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How Republicans Set the Stage for Trump’s Corrosive Ideas on Immigration

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.
by Rick Baldoz via Made By History on January 13, 2018

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
by Heather Cox Richardson via BillMoyers.com on December 7, 2017

The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on December 4, 2017
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