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  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    4/10/2023

    There's a Precedent for Trump's Indictment: Spiro Agnew

    by Zach Messitte, Charles Holden and Jerald Podair

    Nixon's VP pioneered the right-wing politics of grievance against coastal elites and higher education familiar today. He also had a tendency to accept bribes that is familiar. But in 1973 the Republican Party was willing to cut him loose. 

  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    9/28/2022

    Does History Show a Remedy for Dark Money?

    by Bo Blew

    Until 1969's Tax Reform Act, private foundations allowed the rich to influence policy and avoid taxation with haphazard oversight by the states. The new generation of independent political action groups needs similar federal oversight.

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    3/26/2021

    The County Where Cops Call the Shots

    Aaron Bekemeyer's PhD dissertation research examines how police unions, like those in Suffolk County, NY, became powerful in the 20th Century. Jennifer Mittelstadt also comments on the exceptional status of police unions.

  • SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
    12/8/2020

    Cleaning House: Watergate and the Limits of Reform

    by John A. Lawrence

    The reform agenda of the "Watergate Babies" class elected to Congress in 1974 achieved important successes but failed to prevent either the rise of the imperial presidency or increased partisan polarization. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    10/20/2020

    Watergate Led to Reforms. Now, Would-Be Reformers Believe, So Will Trump

    Jack Goldmith and Robert Bauer, legal veterans of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations respectively, are proposing a slate of reforms to limit executive branch powers. They hope to match the legislation passed after Watergate and the revelations of intelligence community abuses exposed by the Church Committee.

  • SOURCE: Bill Moyers
    7/22/2020

    Historic Levels, but Not the Good Kind

    by Heather Cox Richardson

    Warren G. Harding created an atmosphere in which the point of government was not to help ordinary Americans, but to see how much leaders could get out of it.

  • SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
    3/28/19

    The 47-Minute Presidency

    by Tom Engelhardt

    The 47 minutes that define Trump's presidency and why they are worth revisiting.