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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The Syrian crisis has provided a clear issue around which people turning against Trump can coalesce.
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The president is in a full-out fight for his political survival, and to win the next election he is peddling a fictional narrative in which he is the autocratic hero who can
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When the president’s lawyers argued to the Senate that the House's case was second-hand, they knew a primary witness was eager to prove first-hand evidence.
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Trump's goal seems to be to create such nasty chaos that Americans get overwhelmed & tune out & he gets away with a crime that at this point is ridiculously well established.
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If the attack on Soleimani was made in tandem with an attack on another Iranian official, but this time a man in Yemen, it weakens further the idea that there was an
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This feels like it comes down to Trump’s increasingly precarious position at home. Traditionally Americans have rallied behind the president during war.
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It is not December 29 that haunts me: it is the night before the killing. On December 28, there was still time to avert the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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This makes Donald Trump the only Republican ever to be impeached, a singular status he will not celebrate.
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The Republicans are not trying to make a case, or to persuade anyone; they are simply trying to dominate by making this all so painful we stop caring.
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The Syrian crisis has provided a clear issue around which people turning against Trump can coalesce.
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