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How One Man Quietly Stitched the American Safety Net Over Four Decades
Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
November 14, 2022
Did Shark Attacks Eat Into Woodrow Wilson’s Votes in 1916?
What shark attacks in 1916 could tell us about the midterms in 2022.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
August 4, 2022
I Asked 5 Fascism Experts Whether Donald Trump Is a Fascist.
The verdict was unanimous.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
October 30, 2020
How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian
Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
by
Dylan Matthews
,
Heather Ann Thompson
via
Vox
on
June 2, 2020
How Charitable Donations Remade Our Courts
The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
May 29, 2019
Court-Packing is the Democrats’ Nuclear Option for the Supreme Court
Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
July 2, 2018
Andrew Jackson was A Slaver, Ethnic Cleanser, and Tyrant
Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
April 20, 2016
Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist — Even By the Standards of His Time
He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
November 20, 2015
3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake
Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
July 2, 2015
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Donald Trump Isn’t a Fascist; He’s a Media-Savvy Know-Nothing
Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.
by
John Cassidy
via
The New Yorker
on
December 28, 2015
