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Nicole Hemmer

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The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Mastermind Just Died. Here’s His Legacy.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

by Kevin M. Kruse, Bill Kristol, Nicole Hemmer, Corey Robin, Michael Barone, Greg Sargent via Washington Post on October 12, 2023
Jason Aldean Can’t Rewrite the History His Song Depends On

That history has nothing to do with culture wars, and everything to do with what real justice looks like in the United States, and who has access to it.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on July 20, 2023
Pitching the Big Tent

The secret, often missing ingredient to building a majoritarian progressive coalition.

by Nicole Hemmer via Democracy Journal on March 22, 2023
The Fairness Doctrine Sounds A Lot Better Than It Actually Was

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 27, 2021
Biden Rescinding the 1776 Commission Doesn't End the Fight over History

The 1776 Commission marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down meaningful conversation about racism.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 21, 2021
What the Greatest Generation Had That the Covid Generation Lacks

Americans are no more selfish in 2020 than they were in the 1940s, the difference between the two moments is about national leadership, not national character.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on November 18, 2020
Why History Shows 'Court Packing' Isn't Extreme

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on October 12, 2020
The Difference Between Nixon and Trump is Fox News

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on October 7, 2019
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
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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
Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History?

A dozen historians weigh in.

by Heather Cox Richardson, Jack Rakove, Ron Chernow, Leo P. Ribuffo, David Greenberg, Nicole Hemmer, H. W. Brands, Jacqueline Jones, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Vanessa Walker, Joshua Zeitz, Elizabeth F. Ralph via Politico Magazine on December 29, 2017
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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

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Bill Clinton in the background, another man in the foreground.

What the 1990s Did to America

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.

by Henry M. J. Tonks via Public Books on May 17, 2023

Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole standing alongside an elephant on Capitol Hill, 1995.

Myths of Doom

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?

by John Ganz via The Nation on November 29, 2022

Collage of various Republican faces and symbols.

The Long Unraveling of the Republican Party

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Atlantic on September 6, 2022

Photo of Newt Gingrich speaking into a microphone.

To Understand the Modern GOP, Look at the Reactionary ’90s

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

by Paul M. Renfro via Jacobin on August 21, 2022

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

Horace M. Kallen c. 1929. Courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kultur Klux Klan and Cultural Pluralism at One Hundred

Looking back at Horace M. Kallen's collection of essays entitled "Culture and Democracy in the United States."

by Chad Alan Goldberg via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 27, 2024

Photograph of San Francisco Supervisor Dan White standing behind the counter of his fast-food restaurant, the Hot Potato, in October 1978.

How San Francisco (?!) Helped Give Birth to Modern American Fascism

Remember Dan White? He was the Kyle Rittenhouse of his day. No wonder Tucker Carlson loves him.

by David Masciotra via The New Republic on September 30, 2022

Rev. Timothy McDonald III in First Iconium Baptist Church

Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans

The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.

by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Made By History on March 4, 2021

Alt-right man holding an American flag with no shirt but a bull-horned headress on.

The Hour of the Barbarian

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.

by Vincent Bevins via n+1 on January 11, 2021

William F. Buckley, Jr. being interviewed on What’s Happening Mr. Silver.

On the Right: NET and Modern Conservatism

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

by Allison Perlman via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 22, 2020

The Bannon Style of American Politics

It's not as new as it seems.

by Matthew Dallek via Made By History on October 24, 2017

The Fake-News Fallacy

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

by Adrian Chen via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017

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