The White House, the people’s house, was turned into the background for a political rally, emblazoned with flags and sporting jumbotrons that spelled out “Trump/Pence.”
August 28, 2020Please don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
August 27, 2020During her speech at the Republican National Convention, Lara Trump declared that Abraham Lincoln "once famously said, 'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.'" No, he didn't. What did he actually say? Read The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
July 30, 2020Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It's all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy.
June 30, 2017A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.
May 2, 2017Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That's dangerous for him and all the rest of us.- November 15, 2016The election results may have been different had Democrats embraced America's past and its radical imperative of freedom, equality and democracy.
October 23, 2016On Saturday, Donald Trump made a speech in Gettysburg that was nothing like President Abraham Lincoln's revered one. Michael Winship imagines the speech Trump might have delivered in Lincoln's day.
August 9, 2016Donald Trump's 2nd Amendment comment is no longer about civility, decency or even temperament. This is a direct threat of violence against a political rival.
July 21, 2016"There is nothing to stop a president from initiating action, even if unconstitutional," one scholar observes.
