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Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

Five Decades of White Backlash

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
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Racism Has Always Driven U.S. Policy Toward Haiti

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

Could the 25th Amendment Be Trump’s Downfall?

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Lessons from the Election of 1968

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.
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Forgotten Men

The long road from FDR to Trump.

On Eve of Trump Visit, Mississippi African Americans Say He’s Brought Back Past Troubles

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.

America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

Trump Sounds Ignorant of History. But Racist Ideas Often Masquerade as Ignorance.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.
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Ulysses Grant's America and Ours

Ron Chernow’s biography reminds our 21st-century selves of the distinction between character and personality.
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Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.
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Trump’s Reactionary Mind

This episode highlights a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by political and military distinction and another by entrepreneurial acumen and accumulated wealth. The discussion parses how Trump fits into this dynamic history, in part by taking a look back to seminal conservative thinkers like Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek.

Trump Plans to Release JFK Assassination Documents Despite Concerns From Federal Agencies

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
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When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

One Person's History of Twitter, From Beginning to End

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

Trump's NASA Pivot

His administration has made the moon a destination, not just a pit stop, on the way to Mars.
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The Federal Agency That Few Americans Have Heard Of And Which We All Need To Know

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wields enormous power and is key to President Trump's deregulatory agenda.