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When America Was a Developing Country

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.

by Addison Del Mastro via The American Conservative on December 13, 2017

The Ballot and the Break

Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.

by Eric Blanc via Jacobin on December 4, 2017

Yosemite and the Future of the National Park

The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.

by Tyler Green via Places Journal on December 1, 2017

I’m a Depression Historian. The GOP Tax Bill is Straight Out of 1929.

Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.

by Robert S. McElvaine via Washington Post on November 30, 2017

The Supply-Side Swindle

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?

by Brent Cebul on November 17, 2017

It’s Been 155 Years Since the Senate Expelled a Member. Will Roy Moore Break the Streak?

If he does, it will be a sign of just how repugnant his actions are.

by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 15, 2017

The Small Business Myth

Small businesses enjoy an iconic status in modern capitalism, but what do they really contribute to the economy?

by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Aeon on November 8, 2017

Putin and Trump.

Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

by Andrew Cohen via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2017

"What is Sport to You is Death to Us."

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.

by Ed Ayers on October 31, 2017

Donald Trump, Swamp Creature

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.

by Robert B. Mitchell via Made By History on October 27, 2017

Obama and Trump in the Oval Office.

Two Cheers for Polarization

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.

by Sam Rosenfeld via Boston Review on October 25, 2017

Hating on Herbert Hoover

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on October 23, 2017

Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on October 9, 2017

First grade teacher instructing Spanish pronunciation in Texas.

Helping Latino Kids Succeed in the Classroom Doesn’t Have to be an Ideological War

Conservatives backed bilingual education until it became a progressive cause.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Made By History on September 21, 2017

Demonstrators protesting new history curriculum

How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

by Andrew Hartman via Made By History on September 5, 2017

Forrest the Butcher

Memphis wants to remove a statue honoring first grand wizard of the KKK.

by Liliana Segura via The Intercept on September 2, 2017

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

by Jefferson Cowie via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 1, 2017

Woman with a flower.

The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

by Neil J. Young via Vox on August 31, 2017

Barbara Lee speaking at a House of Representatives podium.

The Origin of Endless War

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on August 11, 2017

A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before.

It ended in disaster.

by Michael Todd Landis via HNN on July 9, 2017

Flag in front of a church.

What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

by Sam Haselby via Washington Post on July 4, 2017

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017

Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 20, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Police officer with automatic rifle guards the US Capitol building.

Violence Against Members of Congress Has a Long, and Ominous, History

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Washington Post on June 15, 2017

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

by Graeme Wood via The Atlantic on June 1, 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

NAFTA Policy Reveals a Distinction Between Trump, Ross Perot, and Patrick Buchanan

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.

by Paul Adler via HNN on May 7, 2017

How Reagan’s EPA Chief Paved the Way for Trump’s Assault on the Agency

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.

by Cally Carswell via The New Republic on March 21, 2017

U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.

Expanding the Slaveocracy

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

by Eric Foner, Matthew Karp via Jacobin on March 21, 2017

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