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.
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February 2, 2021Plus, more detail on the planning of January 6.
February 1, 2021The Republican Party is sliding toward a full-on embrace of authoritarianism. Former President Trump’s exit and ban from his favorite social media outlets has left a vacuum that younger politicians imitating Trump’s style are eager to fill by rallying people to the former president’s standard.
January 30, 2021Biden is moving his agenda forward quickly. He has signed at least 33 executive actions that direct the members of the executive branch on how they should implement laws.
January 28, 2021Will Trump and his supporters seize control of the government—by means legal or illegal — or will the country steer itself back to the norms and values of democracy?
January 27, 2021The traditional way to govern the United States.
January 26, 2021What is taking oxygen today is the war between the two factions of the Republican Party: the Trump faction and the business faction.
January 24, 2021The trick for business Republicans will be to see whether they can get rid of the authoritarian Trump supporters without enabling Democrats to rebuild the New Deal state the Republicans have just spent decades gutting.
January 22, 2021Day One's big news — that there was never any plan for a federal response to the coronavirus pandemic — was not entirely unexpected.
