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Not a Mandate
It’s not surprising that the various toadies, lickspittles and henchmen who have attached themselves to the Trump movement are repeatedly insisting that…
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Cabinet Makers
Fresh of his election victory, Donald Trump has begun rolling out the Cabinet picks for his next administration.
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Checking In
As I noted in this piece, I don’t make predictions about elections because that’s not what historians are trained to do and that’s not something I’m…
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Running Through The Tape
This presidential race has been going on for approximately our entire lifetime, but it’s finally the last weekend of the campaign.
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The Right to Vote
I know you’re sick of hearing that This Is The Most Important Election of Your Life, but as a scholar who’s devoted his career to studying American…
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Your Emotional Support Historian
As I’ve noted on Bluesky, one of the hazards of being a scholar who works on modern American politics is that when this nation goes through an important…
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Strange Bedfellows
Before I dig into my topic today, I wanted to apologize for the relatively light posting the last month.
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Make America Gilded Again
Part of the appeal of Donald Trump’s gauzy promise to “Make America Great Again” is that it’s vague enough to appeal to constituencies who have little…
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The Great Debate
I’ve always been puzzled by the pundits who worried that Kamala Harris wouldn’t do well in a debate.
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Fair and Balanced
This morning, New York Times publisher A.G.
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Conventional Wisdom IX
Just a short follow-up on yesterday’s post:
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Conventional Wisdom VIII
The third night of the Democratic National Convention was framed around the theme of “freedom,” a word that has increasingly become a mainstay of the…
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Campaign Trails
Campaign Trails
A newsletter connecting the past and present of American politics from a historian who has written extensively about civil rights, religious nationalism and modern conservatism.
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