It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode.
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson teaches American history at Boston College. She is the author of a number of books, most recently, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. She writes the popular nightly newsletter Letters from an American. Follow her on Twitter: @HC_Richardson.
ALL POSTS BY Heather Cox Richardson
March 30, 2021Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, has begun.
March 29, 2021Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services.
March 27, 2021Georgia's new voter suppression law has deep roots.
March 26, 2021This is the only story from today because it is the only story historians will note from this era: Did Americans defend their democracy or did they fall to oligarchy?
March 25, 2021The former president not only inspired his supporters to fight for him; he urged them to send money to defend his election in the courts.
March 24, 2021The unfettered right to own and carry weapons has come to symbolize the Republican Party’s ideology of individual liberty. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on gun rights despite the mass shootings occurring with a greater frequency.
March 23, 2021As the Biden administration sets out to regulate business to level the playing field in the United States between workers and employers, address inequality, and combat climate change, Republicans are turning to the courts to stop him.
March 23, 2021Human rights and democracy are high on the Biden administration's foreign policy agenda.
March 20, 2021While 87% of Democrats think what Trump did was wrong and that he should have been convicted of inciting the insurrection, 66% of people who believe that Trump won the election say that the riot at the Capitol is getting too much attention.
