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• 2/16/19
  

  Barack Obama, Politics, and Presidential Rankings

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How can political circumstances alter how scholars rank past presidents? 

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Whose Country is This? Trump, Coolidge, and Immigration

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It was a central question a century ago, and still is today. President Coolidge and President Trump might have similar answers.

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• 2/16/19
  

  How Do You Fire a Special Prosecutor? Ask Harry Truman.

  by Andrew Coan

  The Truman tax scandals teach an important lesson about the relationship between special prosecutors and democratic politics. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why Our World Seems Out of Control

  by Walter G. Moss

  What the world needs more than ever are wise political leaders who can redirect technology to serve the common good.

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• 2/5/19
  

  State of the Union: How Can We Assess Donald Trump’s First Two Years in Office?

  by Michael Nelson

  For all his decline in effectiveness, Trump has not become less influential.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

  by Leon Fink

  What W.E.B. Du Bois and American labor history can teach us about the government shutdown's end. 

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• 2/3/19
  

  Six Times the Failure of a Political Nomination Changed American History 

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Including slavery, gay marriage, abortion rights, and desegregation. 

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• 2/16/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Impeachment

  by Peter Charles Hoffer

  A primer on the constitutional basis of impeachment, when it's been used before, and what that means for our current political moment. 

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• 1/30/19
  

  Bold Experimenter FDR Was Born 137 Years Ago

  by Joseph A. Esposito

  Unquestionably, Roosevelt is the most consequential American president since Abraham Lincoln.

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• 1/24/19
  

  Why is the Doomsday Clock Set at 2 Minutes to Midnight?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  As Nations Get Ready for Nuclear War, Their Governments Work to Create the Illusion of Safety

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• 1/24/19
  

  What Alexander the Great Can Teach Trump About Compromise

  by Robert Garland

  A light-hearted historical solution to the government shutdown. 

• 
• 2/16/19
  

  How the Shortest Presidency Spurred a Brief Constitutional Crisis

  by Suzy Evans

  William Henry Harrision only served as president for 31 days but he still sparked a constituional debate. 

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• 1/27/19
  

  Trump, Benjamin Franklin, and the Long History of Calling Immigrants "Snakes"

  by Geoffrey Sill

  Trump’s unsupported allegations that immigrants are “animals, not people” may find a popular reception among many Americans because the association between immigrants, criminality, and reptility goes back to a period well before the founding of the nation. 

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• 2/16/19
  

  America Needs a Moral Leader in 2020

  by Donald J. Fraser

  And we can look to Abraham Lincoln as an example. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  We Need to Re-think Our Characterization of Trump’s Trade War, and “Mercantilism” Just Doesn’t Cut It

  by Randal Grant Kleiser

  Characterizing Trump as a “mercantilist” misleads the public into thinking he follows a stable, precedented, and predictable ideology on trade.

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• 1/22/19
  

  What Does William Barr Have to Do With Iran Contra?

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  And what it means for George H.W. Bush's legacy. 

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• 2/13/19
  

  What a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty

  by Sandra Vea

   Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years. Yet, they had to keep their service secret for 30 years. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation

  by Tom Wheeler

  "The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.