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The Case for Disqualification

Three years later, amid another national election, the American public is still slow to understand the enormity of January 6, 2021.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on January 30, 2024
A sign left behind by Trump supporters at a rally outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, September 27, 2023.

American Fascism

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.
by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on January 24, 2024
Photo of Donald Trump at a podium and pointing.

The Supreme Court Must Unanimously Strike Down Trump’s Ballot Removal

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.
by Lawrence Lessig via Slate on December 20, 2023
Donald Trump behind bars made of the US Constitution

The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
by Laurence H. Tribe, J. Michael Luttig via The Atlantic on August 19, 2023
Cover of the book "24/7 Politics," featuring photos of Nixon and Carter.

The Battlefields of Cable

How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV.
by Jesse Walker via Reason on August 15, 2023
Former President Donald Trump with his attorneys inside the courtroom during his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023.

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.
by Joseph Kelly via The Conversation on August 4, 2023
President Warren G. Harding throws out the first ball to open the Washington Senators' baseball season on April 13, 1921.

A Century Before Trump’s Term, a President Paid a Mistress to Stay Silent

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.
by James D. Robenalt via Retropolis on April 2, 2023
Table of election returns printed in newspaper in 1796.

Collusion, Theft, Violence, and Lies: Lurid Tales of American Elections

1796, the first contested presidential election.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on March 3, 2023
Blue and red donkey logo of the Democratic Party.

Hope in the Desert: Democratic Party Blues

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on May 4, 2022
Ron DeSantis at podium at CPAC.
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Instead of Boosting Democracy, Primary Elections Are Undermining It

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.
by Lawrence R. Jacobs via Made By History on April 27, 2022
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Sunrise at Monticello

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on July 19, 2021
Cartoon of politicians arguing

The Gilded Age’s Democratic Contradictions

How the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on June 1, 2021
Bush and Obama

The GOP Test

History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?
by Sean Wilentz via Democracy Journal on November 12, 2020
A drawing of George Washington surrounded by seals representing the states.

The Constitutional Convention Debates the Electoral College

How the founders settled on the system we love to hate today.
by Jason Yonce via Journal of the American Revolution on November 5, 2020
Broadside showing the Louisiana Returning Board entitled "The Political Farce of 1876," published by Joseph A. Stoll, c. 1877.

Undecided Candidates

An excerpt from the diary of presidential hopeful at the outset of the contested election of 1876.
by Rutherford B. Hayes via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 3, 2020
Joe Biden.
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What’s Driving So Many Republicans to Support Joe Biden?

The collapse of the Republican Party.
by Geoffrey Kabaservice via Made By History on October 30, 2020
Black and White photo of JFK and Richard Nixon

The Time Nixon’s Cronies Tried to Overturn a Presidential Election

The gambit was cynical and disruptive, but in the end it didn’t work.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on October 10, 2020
A close up of an electoral map from Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States

The Electoral Punt

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on September 30, 2020
People in formal wear sitting in chairs, listening to a person behind a desk

Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?

The system that is nobody’s first choice.
by Michael Kazin via The Nation on September 22, 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
Tiled pattern of 2020 presidential campaign signs.

How Candidate Diversity Impacts Color Diversity

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.
by Champe Barton via The Pudding on August 1, 2020

One Week to Save Democracy

Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on June 5, 2020

Alternate Histories

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.
by John Nichols, Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on May 21, 2020

When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie

If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.
by Ed Burmila via The Nation on April 7, 2020

4 Contested Conventions in Presidential Election History

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.
by Lesley Kennedy via HISTORY on March 4, 2020
Bernie Sanders campaigning
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What Winning New Hampshire — and its Media Frenzy — Could Mean for Bernie Sanders

The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Made By History on February 12, 2020
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A Century of Reforms Made Iowa and New Hampshire Presidential Kingmakers

But did they backfire?
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on February 3, 2020
Map of 1796 presidential election electoral votes by state.
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The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 7, 2019

When Adding New States Helped the Republicans

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.
by Heather Cox Richardson via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019
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