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Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 23, 2017
Braille Playboy

For Years, There Was Playboy for Blind People. A Republican Congressman Tried to Kill It

The government shouldn’t subsidize porn, he argued.
by Jessica Lipsky via Timeline on September 21, 2017
Trump speaking at Liberty University.

Is the Term 'Evangelical' Redeemable?

One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.
by Thomas S. Kidd via The Gospel Coalition on September 8, 2017

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.
by Jefferson Cowie via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 1, 2017
Confederate rally.

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on August 14, 2017
partner

How the Fight Over Civil Forfeiture Lays Bare the Contradictions in Modern Conservatism

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.
by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on July 24, 2017

Trumpcare Is Dead. “Single Payer Is the Only Real Answer,” Says Medicare Architect.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”
by Zaid Jilani, Max Pine via The Intercept on July 19, 2017

The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 3, 2017

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.
by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017
Trump at the podium, surrounded by other officials.
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Why are Republicans Trapped on Health Care? Because Democrats Stole Their Best Idea.

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.
by Guian McKee via Made By History on June 26, 2017
James Buchanan

What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.
by Nancy MacLean, Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 22, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.
by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Donald Trump and the 'Paranoid Style' in American (Intellectual) Politics

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.
by Leo P. Ribuffo via The International Security Studies Forum on June 13, 2017

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on June 1, 2017

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.
by Graeme Wood via The Atlantic on June 1, 2017
A painting of a "traditional" mid-20th century nuclear family.

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
by Melinda Cooper via Boston Review on May 31, 2017
Painting of Washington on horseback as his soldiers trudge through snow to Valley Forge.

The Conservative Revolution of 1776

The leaders of the Revolutionary War — and their vision for the nation — were far from revolutionary.
by Diana Muir Appelbaum via The New Rambler on May 29, 2017

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

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.
by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017

What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses

Experts weigh in on how historians of the future may assess President Trump's achievements after his first 100 days in office.
by Ibram X. Kendi, David McCullough, Timothy Naftali, George H. Nash, Anne E. Parsons, Heather Ann Thompson, Julie M. Weise, Alice S. Yang, Kyle G. Volk, Pablo A. Piccato, Roger Pilon via TIME on April 27, 2017

When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
by Sam Tanenhaus via Esquire on April 5, 2017

The Odds Against Antiwar Warriors

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on March 30, 2017

Is Trump the New Teddy Roosevelt?

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.
by Stephen Beale via The American Conservative on March 20, 2017

Constitutional Originalism and History

Does the most historically minded school of constitutional law push history aside?
by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on March 20, 2017
A political cartoon showing two figures leading donkeys in opposite directions. The donkeys are depicted with the faces of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay.

Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.
by Philip Wallach via Brookings on March 6, 2017

Political Correctness: How The Right Invented a Phantom Enemy

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.
by Moira Weigel via The Guardian on November 30, 2016

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 10, 2016
Donald Trump

If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populism Mean?

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?
by Charles Postel via The American Historian on August 1, 2016
Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich.

They Were Made for Each Other

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.
by Nicole Hemmer, Brent Cebul via The New Republic on July 11, 2016

Ronald Reagan Was Once Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.
by Frank Rich via Intelligencer on June 1, 2016
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