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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
Football players kneeling in prayer on the field.

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.
by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on August 28, 2018

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on August 20, 2018

The Growing Rift Between Workers and Environmentalists

Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.
by Erik Loomis via Modern American History on July 27, 2018

A Conservative Activist’s Quest to Preserve all Network News Broadcasts

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on July 26, 2018

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.
by Stephen Kantrowitz via Boston Review on July 23, 2018
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The Real Reason the Trump Administration Went to War Over Breast-Feeding

On breast-feeding, Trump is following the Reagan formula.
by Paul Adler via Made By History on July 11, 2018
Steve Gaines, prays with his wife at the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention meeting.

Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump

Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
by R. Marie Griffith via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 10, 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

The White Man, Unburdened

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.
by Stuart Schrader, Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on July 4, 2018

The Last of the Small-Town Lawyers

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 27, 2018
Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 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
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Is No Libertarian

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.
by Maurice S. Lee via Public Books on May 18, 2018
Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.
by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018

How Cosby's 'Pound Cake' Speech Helped Lead to His Downfall

His moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on April 26, 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
Farmers haying.

Remembering the ‘Spooky Wisdom’ of Our Agrarian Past

For millennia, humans have followed specific patterns passed down by their forbears without always knowing why.
by Gracy Olmstead via The American Conservative on April 23, 2018

'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
by Rebecca Stoner via Pacific Standard on April 12, 2018

Company Men

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on March 29, 2018

The Revolutionary Roots of America’s Religious Nationalism

America's sense of religious nationalism was forged in the same fires that ignited the profoundly secular French Revolution.
by Benjamin E. Park via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on March 20, 2018
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Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Made By History on February 22, 2018
Girls in Appalachia in 1935.

The Invention of the 'White Working Class'

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.
by Andrew J. Perrin via Public Books on January 30, 2018

Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on January 28, 2018

Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.
by Daniel Cox via FiveThirtyEight on January 24, 2018

Restoring King

There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Jacobin on January 16, 2018
Man holding a Veterans for Trump sign at a rally.

Forgotten Men

The long road from FDR to Trump.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on December 12, 2017

The NFL Marketing Ploy That Was Too Successful For The League’s Own Good

For decades, the NFL has used patriotism to advance its interests. Now fans expect it to be something it never was.
by Jesse Berrett via Washington Post on December 10, 2017

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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