Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She is the author, most recently, of To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party.
Trump's goal seems to be to create such nasty chaos that Americans get overwhelmed & tune out & he gets away with
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Cuts to both social programs and taxes are the end game of a movement that started in the 1930s, designed to take American government back to the 1920s, when Republicans turned the government over to businessmen in the belief that
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The rise of the governors has prompted a long-overdue political conversation about the realities of government funding.
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The Republican division of the nation into “us” versus “them” has come to override any attempt at actual problem solving.
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When this deadly crisis passes, we will be faced with the task of building a new era. What it will look like is ours to choose.
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The great strength of America remains where it has always been: in ordinary Americans, setting their shoulders to accomplish the task before them.
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Trump has kept his base firmly behind him by demonizing immigrants, the media, and, increasingly, Democrats, deflecting his own shortcomings in office by blaming these groups for undermining him.
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To guarantee equal access to information, resources, and government, we all must have equality before the law, including the right to liberty unless we have been charged with a crime.
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This quotation, from Trump’s answer when a reporter asked him if he took responsibility for the lag in testing for the novel coronavirus, will be in every single history book written about
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The people in power would not be working so hard to silence those of us who care deeply about American democracy if they thought our actions didn’t matter.
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Historically, the Democratic and Republican parties are not two sides of the same coin. They formed in very different eras and for very different reasons.
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Cuts to both social programs and taxes are the end game of a movement that started in the 1930s, designed to take American government back to the 1920s, when Republicans turned the
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