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What If the Political Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back?
"The Cycles of American History" foresaw American voter dealignment, and an age of voters prioritizing personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.
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Michael Brenes
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The New Republic
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July 11, 2025
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How the Iran-Contra Scandal Impacts American Politics Today
The Iran-Contra affair exposed how government officials can ignore democratic norms and practices.
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Alan McPherson
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Made By History
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May 14, 2025
What If It Is Happening Here?
Lessons from the anti-fascist novel in Trump’s second term.
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David Renton
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Literary Hub
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May 12, 2025
How William Howard Taft’s Approach to Efficiency Differed from Elon Musk’s
This isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline government.
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Laura Ellyn Smith
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The Conversation
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May 9, 2025
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President Precedents
How Americans understand the powers of the office and the legacies of past leaders.
The Dangerous Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Power Grabs
There was no “unitary executive” until some dudes made the idea up to save Nixon.
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Pema Levy
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Mother Jones
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May 5, 2025
A Warning for Democrats From the Gilded Age and the 1896 Election
Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
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Adam M. Silver
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The Conversation
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April 22, 2025
He’s a Key Thinker of the Radical Right, But Is He All That?
Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.
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Joshua Tait
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The Bulwark
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April 11, 2025
US Senator Cory Booker Just Spoke for 25 Hours in Congress. What Was He Trying to Achieve?
He set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
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Bruce Wolpe
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The Conversation
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April 2, 2025
The Making of Emergencies
For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.
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Caroline Elkins
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New York Review of Books
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February 16, 2025
How Civil Service Protections Emerged After James Garfield’s Assassination
Reformers in the Republican Party had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.
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Scott S. Greenberger
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Retropolis
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February 13, 2025
Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability
In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.
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Franklin Foer
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The Atlantic
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February 11, 2025
What Happens If Trump Defies the Courts
Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?
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Isaac Chotiner
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Cristina Rodriguez
via
The New Yorker
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February 11, 2025
Kennedy Family Values
Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?
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Alan Pell Crawford
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The American Conservative
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January 25, 2025
Honey, I Forgot to Duck
Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.
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Jackson Lears
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London Review of Books
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January 15, 2025
Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.
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Ben Burgis
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Damage
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December 4, 2024
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Will Grover Cleveland's Second Term Foreshadow Trump's Future?
The only president before Trump to win, lose, and win again ended up decimating his own party during his second term.
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Luke Voyles
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Made By History
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November 21, 2024
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Even George Washington Was a Tyrant
We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.
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Karin Wulf
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Made By History
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November 18, 2024
How Past and Present Catch Up With Each Other
The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.
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James M. Banner Jr.
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The Panorama
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October 23, 2024
Supreme Court Ruling in Trump v. United States Would Have Given Nixon Immunity for Watergate Crimes
President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.
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Ken Hughes
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The Conversation
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September 12, 2024
John Quincy Adams's America
Historians may never speak of an “Age of Adams” to rival Andrew Jackson, but Randall Woods’s new biography reveals the sixth president’s greatness.
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Daniel N. Gullotta
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Law & Liberty
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September 6, 2024
Whatever Happened to Martin Van Buren’s Presidential Tigers?
It's a great story. The only problem is that the whole thing is probably made up.
by
Isabel Sans
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Boundary Stones
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August 23, 2024
That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.
The 2008 election sparked an outburst of brightness and positivity across pop culture. Now hindsight — and cringe — is setting in.
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Nate Jones
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Vulture
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August 20, 2024
Two Americas?
Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.
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Nicholas Misukanis
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Commonweal
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August 6, 2024
One Man’s Quest to Restore the First-Ever Air Force One
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.
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Eric J. Wallace
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Atlas Obscura
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August 1, 2024
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How Democrats Gave Away Their Ability to Pick a New Nominee
Until the late 1960s, the Democratic Party could have simply anointed a replacement for President Biden. Now it's not so easy.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs
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Made By History
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July 22, 2024
There Has Been Nothing Like This in American History
Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.
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Fred Kaplan
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Slate
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July 21, 2024
Lyndon Johnson Knew That Part of Wielding Power Is Knowing When to Let It Go
As Democrats debate whether Joe Biden should stay in the race against Trump, LBJ’s often misunderstood example looms.
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Christopher Hooks
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Texas Monthly
on
July 2, 2024
The Craziest Convention in American History
Think this year’s Democratic convention is going to be nuts? One hundred years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots—and more than two weeks—to choose a candidate.
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Walter Shapiro
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The New Republic
on
June 24, 2024
‘Unless Jesus Christ Was Running’: In MAGA Country, Post-Verdict Trump is Still the Answer
Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. His former bellwether county — and museum — both hold lessons for Trump’s campaign.
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Adam Wren
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Politico
on
June 3, 2024
No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968
The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.
by
Walter Shapiro
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The New Republic
on
May 9, 2024
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