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  • Letters From an American
    Home-Grown Extremism: Look to the Right
    January 17, 2021

    By 1995, right-wing terrorists envisioned themselves as protectors of American individualism in the face of a socialist government, but the reality was that their complaints were not about government activism. They were about who benefited from that activism.

  • Letters From an American
    How to Plan a Coup
    September 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today’s big story is the growing threat of violence on the part of Trump loyalists in the administration, including the president himself.

  • Letters From an American
    Bob Woodward Has Another Scoop: It is NOT Good for the President
    September 10, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Over the course of 18 interviews, Trump spoke for nine hours to journalist Bob Woodward. He had apparently been angry at his aides for shielding him from Woodward before the journalist published his book Fury in 2018, thinking he could charm Woodward into presenting him in a better light, as he had shaped coverage of himself in the tabloids in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump was wrong.

  • Letters From an American
    The Problem with Portland
    August 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump is clearly trying to change the national narrative from his disastrous response to the coronavirus and the economic crash to the idea that he alone can protect white Americans from their dangerous Black neighbors.

  • Letters From an American
    Trump Sends Federal Troops to Cities Run by Democrats
    July 21, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    "LAW AND ORDER" vs. Moms
  • Society
    We Are Two Emotional Nations at War
    October 4, 2017
    | Todd Gitlin
    Antagonism flourishes, but it comes in different flavors.
  • History
    How Bad Could Things Get?
    September 8, 2017
    | Todd Gitlin
    The late ‘60s and early ‘70s were crazy, but we’re looking wilder.
  • Democracy & Government
    Charlottesville is a Step-Up Moment for Leadership
    August 14, 2017
    | Todd Gitlin
    The fire that burns the length and breadth of American history has burst through a firebreak.


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