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On persuasion, coercion, and the state.
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The New Deal's Dark Underbelly
David Beito has penned one of the most damning scholarly histories of FDR to date.
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Marcus Witcher
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Law & Liberty
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January 23, 2024
The Plunder and the Pity
Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.
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Ian Frazier
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New York Review of Books
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January 18, 2024
The Book of Liberal Maladies
On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.
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John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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January 18, 2024
Trump's 'Lost Cause,' a Kind of Gangster Cult, Won't Go Away
Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.
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David W. Blight
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Los Angeles Times
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January 14, 2024
First They Came for Harvard
The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.
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Rick Perlstein
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The American Prospect
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January 10, 2024
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Yes, Schools Should Teach Morality. But Whose Morals?
Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?
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Mallory Hutchings-Tryon
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Made by History
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January 9, 2024
Nikki Haley's Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP's Tragic Pact with White Supremacy
How the Southern Strategy of the late 20th century gave rise to the modern GOP.
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Annika Brockschmidt
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Religion Dispatches
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January 8, 2024
How a Die-Hard Confederate General Became a Civil Rights–Supporting Republican
James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.
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Matthew E. Stanley
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Jacobin
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January 5, 2024
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Fights Over American Democracy Reach Back to the Founding Era
In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.
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Retro Report
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January 4, 2024
Two Colonists Had Similar Identities, But Only One Felt Compelled to Remain Loyal
What might appear to be common values about shared identities can serve not as a bridge but a wedge.
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Abby Chandler
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The Conversation
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January 4, 2024
The Supreme Court Must Unanimously Strike Down Trump’s Ballot Removal
Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.
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Lawrence Lessig
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Slate
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December 20, 2023
Fifty Years Of Home Rule In Washington, DC
After Congress robbed Washingtonians of local and federal representation, decades of activism -- slowed by racist opposition -- finally succeeded in 1973.
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The Metropole
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December 20, 2023
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The Politics of Fear Is Damaging American Education—And Has Been for Decades
Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.
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Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
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Made by History
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December 14, 2023
Why Some Founding Fathers Disapproved of the Boston Tea Party
While many Americans gushed about the effectiveness of the ‘Destruction of the Tea,’ others thought it went too far.
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Dave Roos
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HISTORY
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December 11, 2023
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America Doesn't Deserve Fast Trains
For 70 years, the U.S. has failed to achieve faster trains—because it refuses to do what it takes to make them work.
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David Alff
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Made by History
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December 11, 2023
Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics
Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.
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Chris Maisano
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Jacobin
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December 9, 2023
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‘Atoms for Peace’ Was Never All That Peaceful—And the World Is Still Living With the Consequences
The U.S. sought to rebrand nuclear power as a source of peace, but this message helped mask a violent history.
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Tommy Song
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Made by History
on
December 8, 2023
A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
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Greg Grandin
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The Nation
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November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100
He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
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Thomas W. Lippman
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Washington Post
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November 30, 2023
Revisiting New York’s Historic Abortion Law in “Deciding Vote”
Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.
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Robert Lyons
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Jeremy Workman
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Linnea Feldman Emison
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The New Yorker
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November 29, 2023
Bad Shot, Mary
The mistress of JFK, there was a lot more than wealth, whiteness, and femininity to make Mary Pinchot Meyer a target of murder.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Apocalypse Confidential
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November 22, 2023
Whiggism Is Still Wrong
Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.
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Sohrab Ahmari
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The American Conservative
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November 21, 2023
The Strange Death of Private Life
In the early 1970s, the idea that private life meant a right to be left alone – an idea forged over centuries – began to disappear. We should mourn its absence.
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Tiffany Jenkins
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Engelsberg Ideas
on
November 21, 2023
The Conquered General
The back-and-forth life of Confederate James Longstreet.
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Richard Kreitner
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Slate
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November 20, 2023
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Government Shutdowns Were Never Necessary Anyway
Government shutdowns only became possible in 1980, when the Attorney General offered a new interpretation of an 1870 law.
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M. A. Davis
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Made by History
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November 16, 2023
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What Civil War History Says About Attempts to Use the Insurrection Clause to Keep Trump From Office
Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.
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Elizabeth R. Varon
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Made by History
on
November 15, 2023
Searching for the Perfect Republic
On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.
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Eric Foner
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Ted Widmer
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The Guardian
on
November 15, 2023
Surviving a Wretched State
A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
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Melvin L. Rogers
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Neil Roberts
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Boston Review
on
November 15, 2023
The Massacre That Turned Texas Into the Most Gun-Friendly State in America
The effects of the 1991 mass shooting at a Luby's in Killeen can still be felt today—in the legislature and on our streets.
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Emily McCullar
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Texas Monthly
on
November 14, 2023
One of the Oldest Broken Promises to Indigenous Peoples Is for a Voice in Congress
A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.
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John Nichols
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The Nation
on
November 14, 2023
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