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• Originally published 08/27/2016

  Speaker Ryan loves pseudo-historian David Barton

  Speaker Paul Ryan apparently has a penchant for the work of the notorious “historian” and Christian nationalist David Barton. Once again illustrating just how rotten Ryan’s judgment can be.

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• Originally published 05/10/2016

  History lesson for Paul Ryan: The Republicans have always been Donald Trump’s party

  Paul Krause

  Donald Trump unmasked a remodeled, civil conservatism that tried to dress its crass and insular elements in a suit.

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• Originally published 04/08/2016

  Will the GOP Crown Paul Ryan as Its Presidential Nominee?

  Ronald L. Feinman

  If it does, it will be a sharp break with history and not for the reasons you think.

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• Originally published 04/05/2016

  This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves

  Heather Cox Richardson

  It's the elites vs the people in this presidential campaign, and nothing less than democracy is at stake.

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• Originally published 12/01/2015

  Paul Ryan’s Whiskers Prompt Look at House Precedent

  Politicians have generally preferred to be fresh-faced for much of the last century. However, as historians have noted, that was not always the case.

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• Originally published 10/27/2015

  Paul Ryan’s Haunted House

  Josh Zeitz

  What can he learn from the ghosts of speakers past?

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• Originally published 04/02/2014

  AHA sends up flare for help after Paul Ryan declares war on the NEH

  Help defeat the Ryan Proposal today by urging your elected officials to join a bipartisan effort to support NEH.

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• Originally published 03/17/2014

  Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia

  Timothy Egan

  Talking the familiar, heartless language of hunger economics.

• Originally published 03/19/2013

  David Woolner: FDR -- Minimum Wage Critics "Hopelessly Reactionary"

  David Woolner is Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian at the Roosevelt Institute, and Associate Professor of History at Marist CollegeOur Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself. All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor. –FDR, May 1937

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• Originally published 09/17/2012

  Why Can Paul Ryan Run for Vice President and Congress at the Same Time?

  David Austin Walsh

  Lyndon Johnson greeting students at the East Texas Teachers College, his alma mater, in 1959. Credit: Texas A&M University.Paul Ryan is actually a candidate in two elections this year -- at the national level as Mitt Romney's running mate, at the local level as the incumbent congressman for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.But under Wisconsin law, a candidate can only appear on the ballot once. So what gives?Like many great electoral innovations, this one can be traced back to Lyndon Baines Johnson.