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Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.
by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020
Cover image of "Freedom an Unruly History"

What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Annelien de Dijn via The Nation on October 29, 2020
Nurses tend to patients in a field hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic.

Medicare for All in the Age of Coronavirus

A history of U.S. health care debates.
by Nancy Tomes via Perspectives on History on April 24, 2020
Medical professionals confer at the entrance to a hospital emergency room.
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Doctors and Hospitals Are Struggling Financially in a Pandemic. Here’s Why.

Procedures drive the bottom line in our medical system.
by Mical Raz via Made By History on March 11, 2020

Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, and Places in History

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.
by Sean Wilentz via The New Yorker on July 11, 2019

Haunted by the Reagan Era

Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation.
by Ryan Grim via Washington Post on July 5, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.
by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 2019
A modern adaption of Howard Chandler Christy’s 1940 painting, “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” with contemporary players on both sides of the judicial contest.

How The Federalist Society is Helping Conservatives Win The Judicial War

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.
by David Montgomery via Washington Post Magazine on January 2, 2019

How the IRS Was Gutted

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed and hamstrung. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy.
by Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger via ProPublica on December 11, 2018

How Medicare Was Won

The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today's movement to win for Medicare for All.
by Natalie Shure via The Nation on August 6, 2018

Somewhere in Between

The rise and fall of Clintonism.
by Ryan Cooper via The Nation on February 14, 2018

Selling American Vigor

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.
by Rachel Louise Moran via Process: A Blog for American History on February 13, 2018
Chuck Schumer talks with a staffer in shadow beneath the seal of the U.S. Senate.
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Secrecy in the Senate

To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.
by Katlyn Marie Carter via Made By History on December 12, 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

The Troubled Rise of the Technocrat

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on November 20, 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

Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

Blacks continue to die younger than people in other groups in the Black Belt.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester via FiveThirtyEight on April 20, 2017

How the Demise of Her Health-Care Plan Led to the Politician Clinton Is Today

As first lady, Clinton rejected the ways of Washington and paid a price.
by Amy Goldstein via Washington Post on August 25, 2016

The Strange Career of Free Exercise

How efforts to bolster religious liberty set off a chain of unintended consequences.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on April 4, 2016

Bernie Sanders Is Right That Reparations Would Be Divisive

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on January 21, 2016
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Going Negative

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.
by Thomas Healy via Boston Review on November 12, 2015

In Defense of Court-Packing

When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad.
by Ian Millhiser via Slate on February 23, 2015

An Enemy Until You Need a Friend

The role of "big government" in American history.
by Steven Conn via Origins on November 1, 2014
This editorial cartoon from a January 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly depicting a white man misspelling words on a sign announcing Black voters must pass a literacy test, while a Black man looks on laughing.

The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.
by Alan Greenblatt via NPR on October 22, 2013
Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on a chair in a room with a fireplace

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.
by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

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