Menu
Idea

elections

219
Filter by:

Filter by published date

Viewing 181–210 of 219 results. Go to first page
Wide view of past members in the House of Representatives.

What History Tells Us About Kevin McCarthy’s Chances

One hundred years ago, a strong leader brought House rebels to the table to elect a speaker. Can McCarthy do the same?
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 5, 2023
Kevin McCarthy looking anxious.

Back to the Future? Battling Over the Speakership on the House Floor

The history of speakership contests underscores the corner Kevin McCarthy is painted into and the corner any Republican House leader is likely to face.
by Jeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Stewart III via Broadstreet on January 3, 2023
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court holding signs that read "People Over Politics."
partner

A Post-Reconstruction Proposal That Would Have Restored Power to the People

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.
by Brook Thomas via Made By History on December 19, 2022
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake holds a news conference as she tours the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 4 in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
partner

Cochise County Didn’t Used To Be the Land Of Far Right Stunts

How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.
by Katherine Benton-Cohen via Made By History on December 2, 2022
Mike Lawler, Republican candidate for New York's 17th Congressional District.
partner

The GOP Can Thank Suburban N.Y. For its Slim Control of The House

How a red wave in a solidly blue state helped tip the balance.
by Stacie Taranto via Made By History on November 28, 2022
Print shows Rebel troops killing the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, and setting fire to the buildings.

Where Will This Political Violence Lead? Look to the 1850s.

In the mid-19th century, a pro-slavery minority used violence to stifle a growing anti-slavery majority, spurring their opposition to respond in kind.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on October 29, 2022
Graphic design of a red, fractured United States on a yellow background

There Is Absolutely Nothing to Support the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.
by J. Michael Luttig via The Atlantic on October 3, 2022
Political cartoon of Andrew Johnson holding a leaking kettle labeled "The Reconstructed South" towards a woman representing liberty and Columbia, carrying a baby representing the newly approved 14th Amendment.
partner

The Pro-Democratic Fourteenth Amendment

At the heart of recent US Supreme Court decisions, the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to require free speech and free elections in the South.
by Garrett Epps, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on July 22, 2022
Mitch McConnell smiling.

How the Conservative War on Campaign Finance Regulation Hastened Roe's Downfall

How the movement to end legal abortion became intertwined with a different conservative pet project.
by Marisa Wright via Balls And Strikes on July 12, 2022
partner

How Watergate and Citizens United Shaped Campaign Finance Law

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.
via Retro Report on June 17, 2022
Wilma Mankiller on a quarter

Reconsidering Wilma Mankiller

As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
by Alaina E. Roberts via High Country News on June 6, 2022
A book labeled "history" begin painted white to represent revisionism.

Right-Wing Nationalists Are Marching into the Future by Rewriting the Past

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.
by Ishaan Tharoor via Washington Post on February 11, 2022
Advertisement during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.

Political Accountability and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Why do some political incumbents adopt aggressive measures to slow the spread of infectious diseases while others do not?
by Yuri M. Zhukov, Jacob Walden via Broadstreet on December 10, 2021
Protesters holding flags of the US and Mexico.
partner

How Prop. 187 Transformed the Immigration Debate and California Politics

Much of the anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy in the news today is similar to a movement that swept the country 20 years ago.
via Retro Report on December 3, 2021
Volunteer putting out political signs for the Virginia governor's race.
partner

Virginia’s Governor’s Race May Hinge on Debates About Public Schools

Channeling conservative, white anger about public schools is a long-running political strategy.
by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Lisa Levenstein via Made By History on November 2, 2021
Elephant trunk holding the D.C. flag.

There Once Was a Republican Fight for D.C. Statehood

From 1956–1978, Republicans backed D.C. representation, but now oppose it, reflecting a broader GOP shift against voting rights and toward partisan control.
by David A. Graham via The Atlantic on June 17, 2021
Newt Gingrich and applauding Republicans

My Front Row Seat to the Radicalization of the Republican Party

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.
by Jackie Calmes via Los Angeles Times on June 13, 2021
partner

Tucker Carlson’s Cries About Immigrants Have a Disturbing 19th-Century Parallel

The “great replacement theory” is nothing new.
by Zachary M. Schrag via Made By History on May 17, 2021
Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.
by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021
Deputy sheriff at county fair in Gonzales, Texas.

New Sheriff in Town

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.
by Jonathon Booth via The Drift on February 3, 2021
This 1856 political cartoon depicts the responses of the three candidates to the results of the election. Winning Democrat James Buchanan sits reading the returns of the election while newspaper editors approach from the left. Behind them the defeated Republican candidate John C. Fremont rides off into the West. To the right the second defeated candidate, Millard Fillmore, laments his fall into the “caverns of Know-Nothingism.”

Here’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party

The modern GOP isn't the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering.
by Zachary Karabell via Politico Magazine on January 30, 2021

A Record Number of Women Are Serving in the 117th Congress

Since Jeannette Rankin was elected in 1916, 352 women have served in the House and 46 in the Senate. About two-thirds entered Congress during or after the 1990s.
by Drew DeSilver, Carrie Blazina via Pew Research Center on January 15, 2021
Side-by-side of Josh Hawley and David Atchison

Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

The Bleeding Kansas parallels with our current moment get weirder and darker.
by Steven Lubet via Tropics of Meta on January 13, 2021

Minority Rule Cannot Last in America

It never has.
by Kenneth Owen via The Atlantic on December 2, 2020
Jimmy Carter waving from the stage of a rock and roll concert.

Rock & Roll President: How Musicians Helped Jimmy Carter to the White House

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.
by Jim Farber via The Guardian on September 20, 2020
Legislators at the podium during a joint session of congress to tally presidential electoral votes in 1969.

How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970

The House approved a constitutional amendment to dismantle the indirect voting system, but it was killed in the Senate by a filibuster.
by Dave Roos via HISTORY on August 3, 2020
Women around a table of papers and forms, with a League of Women Voters banner on the wall.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 30, 2020
Robert E. Lee Memorial covered in graffiti and projections and surrounded by protesters.

The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
by Karen L. Cox via Karen L. Cox Blog on June 30, 2020

This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.
by Jane Chong via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

wE’rE a rEPuBLiC nOt A dEMoCRacY

A political usage guide for a feckless commentariat.
by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on May 6, 2019
View More
30 of
219

Filter Results:

Suggested Filters:

Idea

Person

brought to you by
© Bunk History