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The 40-Year Path that Left the GOP Unable to Balance the Budget
First, the GOP became the party of tax cuts and now it won't touch entitlements — which makes a balanced budget nearly impossible.
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Monica Prasad
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Made by History
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April 26, 2023
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The Big Business Campaign That Has Shaped 40 Years of GOP Rhetoric
The philosophy that drives the GOP's attacks on government and how it has fueled some of our biggest problems.
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Naomi Oreskes
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Erik M. Conway
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Made by History
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March 9, 2023
The Broken Promise of “College for Everyone”
The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan proves otherwise.
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Jack Schneider
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The New Republic
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February 27, 2023
Ron DeSantis and the Specter of Lynne Cheney
Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.
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Steven Conn
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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February 8, 2023
The Constitutional Case for Disarming the Debt Ceiling
The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.
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Thomas Geoghegan
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The New Republic
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January 6, 2023
Ticketmaster’s Dark History
A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam.
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Maureen Tkacik
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Krista Brown
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The American Prospect
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December 21, 2022
Pushing Everyone Into College Was a Policy Response to Other Policy
None of it happened by mistake.
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Freddie deBoer
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Freddie deBoer
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November 21, 2022
How One Man Quietly Stitched the American Safety Net Over Four Decades
Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.
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Dylan Matthews
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Vox
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November 14, 2022
"What Are They Hiding?"
Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.
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Marc Caputo
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NBC News
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October 19, 2022
The Presidents Who Hated Their Presidential Portraits
Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.
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Ronald G. Shafer
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Retropolis
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September 7, 2022
Will Neoliberalism Ever End?
A new history shows how neoliberalism took power during a period of crisis, which leaves open the question of whether it can be forced out as a result of one.
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Steven Hahn
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The Nation
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August 22, 2022
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.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Jacobin
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August 21, 2022
How the Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market
In the 1990s, the New Democrats trusted corporations to do the right thing. The results were disastrous.
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Maia Silber
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Jacobin
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July 18, 2022
A Big Tent
The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.
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Nicholas Lemann
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The Nation
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July 11, 2022
A Young WWII Soldier’s Remains Could Be Those of Spike Lee’s Lost Cousin
Military experts seeking to identify partial skeleton in an anonymous grave.
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Michael E. Ruane
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Retropolis
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June 28, 2022
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Title IX Has Been Spectacularly Successful And Disturbingly Unfulfilled
A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.
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Anne M. Blaschke
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Made by History
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June 23, 2022
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.
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Council On Foreign Relations
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May 26, 2022
Hope in the Desert: Democratic Party Blues
In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.
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Eric Foner
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London Review of Books
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May 4, 2022
Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?
A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled.
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Gary Gerstle
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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The Nation
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April 13, 2022
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Biden’s Putin Comments Could Warp U.S. Policy
The lesson of the first Gulf War and its aftermath for handling Russia.
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Joseph Stieb
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Made by History
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April 1, 2022
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