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April 22, 2022
Magazine
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy
American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.
February 15, 2022
Magazine
Sam Rosenfeld
What Defines the Democratic Party?
The longest running theme in the history of the party might be charges of incoherence and disorganization.
August 3, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Donald Trump Truly Is the Heir to the Legacy of Andrew Jackson
They are both racists who killed thousands and thought nothing of it.
May 20, 2019
Magazine
Robert Westbrook
Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
The quest for radical equality in the American grain
March 15, 2019
Tim Burns
Court-Packing Is Not a Threat to American Democracy. It’s Constitutional.
Congress is allowed to change the size of the Supreme Court, and it has done so seven times. The country survived just fine.
January 7, 2019
Magazine
John Fabian Witt
The Operative
How John Marshall built the Supreme Court around his political agenda
April 24, 2018
Matt Ford
When the President Defies the Supreme Court
What will Trump do if the justices rule against him?
February 15, 2018
Magazine
Kevin Baker
The Myth of Normal America
There are no good old days to return to in U.S. politics. The truth about a post-Trump era.
July 17, 2017
Magazine
Win McCormack
Created Equal
How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.
June 13, 2017
Magazine
Kevin Baker
Trail of Fears
Forget Nixon. Trump is more like Andrew Jackson than Tricky Dick—and the consequences of his crimes will be far more devastating.
May 3, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians
They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?
May 2, 2017
Alex Shephard
Did Donald Trump’s bizarre Andrew Jackson theory come from the first page of Jon Meacham’s Jackson biography?
May 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Crude, Ignorant Theory of American History
His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.
May 1, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump doesn’t know why we had a Civil War.
March 15, 2017
Sarah Jones
Two terrible takes fight to the death.
April 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump: Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill.
April 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson are actually going to share the $20 bill, which is bad.
April 20, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Andrew Jackson is getting kicked off the $20 bill. And Harriet Tubman is on.
March 25, 2016
Joshua Kendall
Have We Ever Had a President Like Donald Trump?
Yes, we have—but you have to go back to the nineteenth century.
December 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
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