politics

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• 1/9/19
  

  Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Thinks We Should Abandon The Term "Vocational Training." I Disagree.

  by David Barber

  It's still important to distinguish between "education" and "training." 

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• 1/5/19
  

  What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In

  by Kyla Sommers

  “Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?

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• SOURCE: AP
  12-28-2018
  

  Jerry Brown wraps a 5-decade history in California politics

  The son of Gov. Pat Brown, Jerry Brown became governor at 36 and built a reputation as an idealist who eschewed traditional trappings of wealth and power.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-27-2018
  

  How women used civil disobedience to change American politics

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  Breaking laws to break the glass ceiling.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-24-2018
  

  What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America

  by Yascha Mounk

  “[T]he good news is that Trump will, once the history of our own mortal Republic is written, turn out to be a relatively minor character. Far from single-handedly destroying our political system, he is the transitional figure whose election demonstrates the extent to which the failings of our democracy are finally starting to take their toll."

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• 1/13/19
  

  Is There a Statesman in the House?  Either House?  

  by John T. Shaw

  Now more than ever the United States needs leaders willing to put their careers on the line.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-15-2018
  

  Is There Such a Thing as an Authoritarian Voter?

  by Molly Worthen

  Political scientists want to know. They’re not the only ones.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-12-2018
  

  The Supreme Court confirmation process is actually less political than it once was

  by Timothy S. Huebner

  Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than in the 19th century

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-6-2018
  

  The John Birch Society is still influencing American politics, 60 years after its founding

  by Christopher Towler

  Today, while much of the John Birch Society exists online and through its bimonthly magazine, The New American, some conservatives are trying to reboot local chapters of the nonprofit corporation.

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• 12/23/2018
  

  Could Socialites Save Washington from Partisan Gridlock?

  by Joseph Dalton

  The biographer of society editor Hope Ridings Miller says we can learn from the party givers of old how to get along despite our differences.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-14-18
  

  'Tribalism’ doesn’t explain our political conflicts

  by Adam Rothman

  The term is trendy but vacuous. Look to history, not prehistory, to understand U.S. challenges.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11-4-18
  

  Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

  by Joshua Zeitz

  Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

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• 11/25/18
  

  What Do the Democrats Need in 2020?

  by Walter G. Moss

  A Progressive unifier like FDR.

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• 11/25/18
  

  What the Luddites Were Right About

  by Ed Simon

  What’s needed today is a politics of meaning.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-8-18
  

  ‘I’m no lady. I’m a member of Congress’: The first women who roared into the House

  In 1917 Jeanette Rankin joined the chamber as its first and only female member.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-4-18
  

  The first midterm ‘wave’ election that ended Republican control of government

  In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-1-18
  

  Democrats’ struggle over masculinity in an election 50 years ago is still playing out today

  by Aram Goudsouzian

  In 1968, presidential politics was still a man’s world.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-28-18
  

  How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections

  In the early 1970s, many evangelical Christians weren’t active in politics. Within a few years they had reshaped American politics for a generation.

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• 11/25/18
  

  So Dictionaries Are Political?

  by Rosemarie Ostler

  It’s an American tradition starting with Noah Webster’s.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-29-18
  

  The Promise of Polarization

  by Sam Tanenhaus

  Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?