New perspectives on how history is made
It’s not inconceivable. And it wouldn’t be the first time a party overturned a law that helped millions.
The world of work is much different today than in the postwar Golden Age when good jobs built the American middle class.
And while, we're at it: What do progressives believe?
Of course, he has a lot of competition for the title: Huey Long, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and others. But still.
This is not the question we should be asking, but many people can’t seem to stop themselves.
An in-depth interview with HNN Editor Rick Shenkman, author of "Political Animals."
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. This is how socialism in America has been defined.
But is this a good trend?
Both were devoted socialists in their youth who later came to embrace the Democratic Party.
The frontrunners in both parties are New Yorkers. That hasn’t happened since 1944.
It’s an old formula. It should be resisted.
We don’t have to guess. We know.
If it does, it will be a sharp break with history and not for the reasons you think.
The Hogan lawsuit could be the beginning of something big.
The end of the Whig Party shows why.
One school’s hard Christian right. The other’s devoted to social justice causes. But the trouble they’re facing is rooted in a similar past.
The state rejects lavender and purple state politics and turns a bright shade of red.
Lincoln trounced him – with good reason.
History suggests the answer is no.
If we are not careful we may reap a whirlwind more threatening to American democracy than the 1968 winter of discontent.
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