Roundup Top 10!

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal by Heather Cox Richardson Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

Obama is right: US democracy is fragile by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Signs abound that our freedoms are under siege, not only from foreign enemies such as Vladimir Putin but also from forces inside our country, starting with the radicalized elements of the Republican Party.

Why the Russia Scandal Is Nothing Like Watergate by Jeff Greenfield Imagining how Nixon would have fared in today’s political climate.

The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore by Randall Balmer After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce. After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault.

No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem by Kathryn J. McGarr Women in the industry have long been treated as second-class citizens.

Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts by Tyler Parry As early as 1866, Edward A. Pollard’s book The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the Confederates claimed to present “a severely just account of the War” to contend against the “false schools of public opinion.”

Secrecy in the Senate by Katlyn Marie Carter To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.

What Liberals Can Learn From Conservatism by Jonathan Zimmerman Criticizing the president with the kind of radical rhetoric he uses is toxic for American democracy.

Roy Moore Is Strangely Nostalgic for Slavery Days by Tim Murphy When “families were strong.”

We need more government, not less, in the war on poverty by Mehrsa Baradaran The myth of the “dependent” poor