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Conservatives Say We've Abandoned Reason and Civility. The Old South Said That, Too

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.

by Eve Fairbanks via Washington Post on August 29, 2019

Behind Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Demand: A Long History of Rejecting ‘Different’ Americans

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”

by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on July 15, 2019

It's Time to Stop Talking About a 'National Divorce'

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

by Christian Vanderbrouk via The Bulwark on March 21, 2019

Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.

by Joshua Tait via Made By History on October 5, 2018

Protesters with KKK hoods and Goldwater signs.

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

Donald Trump shaking hands with Mike Huckabee.

Church of The Donald

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

by Ruth Graham via Politico Magazine on May 17, 2018

The New York Times office building in New York City.

The New York Times Journalist Who Secretly Led the Charge Against Liberal Media Bias

The untold story of the double agent who attacked the paper from within.

by Sid Bedingfield via Made By History on December 11, 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 Bannon Style of American Politics

It's not as new as it seems.

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

President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.

When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

by Oscar Winberg via Made By History on October 16, 2017

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.

by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion, Peter A. Shulman via Slate on September 14, 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

Trump speaking.

How the U.S. Lost Its Mind

Make America reality-based again.

by Kurt Andersen via The Atlantic on August 9, 2017

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

by John A. Farrell via Politico Magazine on May 30, 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

Unpopular Mandate

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

by Ezra Klein via The New Yorker on June 25, 2012

Elon Musk arrives for Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.

The Worldview of the Afrikaner Diaspora Now Haunts the US

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.

by Joseph Dana via New Lines on February 19, 2025

Ronald Reagan preparing for a broadcast on Voice of America.

Whose Ronald Reagan?

Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.

by Susan B. Glasser via Foreign Affairs on October 22, 2024

Donald Trump speaks to the Pastors Leadership Conference at New Spirit Revival Center on September 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Spreading the Bad News

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

by Soong-Chan Rah via Democracy Journal on March 22, 2024

Martin Luther King, Jr. with hands raised in front of bookshelf

Martin Luther King, Critical Race Theorist

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

by Sam Hoadley-Brill via The Nation on January 15, 2024

Graphic of the word "negrophile" spelled out three times

How the Right Retired “Negrophile”—and Substituted “Woke”

Favorite slur too racist? Replace it.

by Anthony Conwright via Mother Jones on August 29, 2023

1988 Republican presidential candidates on the debate stage.

Republicans Didn’t Always Run Far to the Right in Presidential Primaries

The 1988 presidential primary showed it wasn't always like this — and helped guide the GOP to where it is now.

by Robert L. Fleegler via Made By History on June 8, 2023

They Did It for the Clicks

How digital media pursued viral traffic at all costs and unleashed chaos.

by Aaron Timms via The New Republic on April 18, 2023

Norma and Mel Gabler, holding a textbook

50 Years Ago, Anti-Woke Crusaders Came for My Grandfather

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

by Max Jacobs via HNN on January 15, 2023

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

Illustration overlaying an image of Lucille Brown and a group of women over an image of Howard University

Higher Ed and the Policing of Memory

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.

by Danielle Conway via The Forum on August 8, 2022

People looking down at words written in chalk on the street as a makeshift memorial of the Buffalo shooting.

The Terrifying Familiarity of the Buffalo Shooting Suspect’s Extremist Screed

The new fascists don’t wear uniforms; they make memes.

by Jeff Sharlet via The Hive on May 17, 2022

Art relating to the News Media by Beck & Stone.

News for the Elite

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

by Mark Hemingway via Law & Liberty on February 14, 2022

"Impeach Earl Warren" billboard by the John Birch Society.

Rise of the Far-Right Ultras

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on January 11, 2022

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