politics

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/21/19
  

  The Partisan

  The political odyssey of Sean Wilentz.

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• 5/19/19
  

  From 37 to 79: Age and Presidential Campaigns

  by Ron Faucheux

  When Buttigieg was born, Biden had already served nine years in the U.S. Senate. When Sanders was born, Franklin Roosevelt was president.

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• 5/16/19
  

  What If Donald Trump Resigned?

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  When President Richard Nixon finally decided the time had come, he wrote a one line notification of what he was doing. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/4/19
  

  Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.

  by Claire Bond Potter

  It was pushed by Madison Avenue and preached by self-help gurus. Then it entered politics.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/13/19
  

  How the Presidential Memoir Evolved

  by Jill Lepore

  Jill Lepore on the "Confessions of a Presidential Candidate."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  How John and John Quincy Adams predicted the Age of Trump

  by Carol Berkin

  “The Problem of Democracy” offers a final warning to its readers who live in an era of “alternate truths” and blind devotion to charismatic leaders.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/6/19
  

  The Coming Generation War

  by Niall Ferguson and Eyck Freymann

  The Democrats are rapidly becoming the party of the young—and the consequences could be profound.

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• SOURCE: The Tennessean
  4/26/19
  

  MLK's prescription for healing hate was embracing 'agape'

  by Eli Merritt

  King spoke about the Greek concept of agape, or brotherly love and compassion, a social concept he defined as “understanding, creative, redemptive good will for all men.”

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• 4/30/19
  

  What Historians Are Saying: 2020 Election

  Historians join the conversation on the 2020 presidential race, and other updates.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.

  Unseating a president from his own party isn’t easy.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/28/19
  

  Historian Ron Chernow Cracks Jokes at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

  In choosing a scholar over a satirist, the Correspondents’ Association had sought to solemnize a dinner known for its comedic puncturing of the Washington bubble. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/18/19
  

  Video of the Week: Mueller report 'devastating for the president'

  Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz says the Trump administration is using an old Nixonian strategy: "Redact, delay, redact, delay, double talk."

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• 4/14/19
  

  President Donald Trump, HIV/AIDS, and Black Lesbian and Gay Activism

  by Darius Bost

  Trump’s plan to end AIDS within this decade came as a surprise given his history with communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS.

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• 3/24/19
  

  What Democratic Socialism Is and Is Not

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Of course, democratic socialism might not be what you want.  But let’s not pretend that it’s something that it’s not.

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• 3/17/19
  

  History Will Clash With History in the 2020 Election

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Three different historical precedents all suggest a different outcome in 2020. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/27/19
  

  Centrism and moderation? No thanks.

  by April Holm

  In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

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• 2/19/19
  

  We Need to Acknowledge the Power of the Israel Lobby

  by Walter L. Hixson

  Israel and its American supporters have assembled the most powerful lobby pursuing the interests of a foreign country in all American history.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Barack Obama, Politics, and Presidential Rankings

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How can political circumstances alter how scholars rank past presidents? 

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  2/13/19
  

  The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendo

  by James Kirchick

  The accusation that Lindsay Graham is susceptible to blackmail is historically groundless, predicated upon the same flawed assumption most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would commit treason in order to avoid being outed.