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The Faithless-Elector Fantasy Is Fun, but It’s Just a Fantasy by Jeff Greenfield It’s all a shadow play—entertaining, provocative, but bearing no relation to political reality.

Stop dreaming. The Electoral College is here to stay. by Joshua Spivak But it is important to understand its actual, widely ignored, roots.

The founders provided a solution to Trump: impeachment by Jack Rakove Forget about Federalist 68 — it's Hamilton's Federalist 65, with its discussion of impeachment, that we'll want to study.

An Intellectual History of Trumpism by David Greenberg Trump’s ideology has deep roots in U.S. history. But this is the first time it’s made it to the White House.

American Radicals and the Change We Could Believe In by Eric Foner The Obama era reminded us all that popular movements play an essential role as catalysts for political action, but Obama himself, unlike Eugene V. Debs, may not have understood this.

Another Kind of “Identity Politics” by John Fea Is Mark Lilla right that liberals need to get beyond identity politics? And just what do we mean by identity politics anyway?

Donald Trump says he wants to fix cities. Ben Carson will make them worse. by Thomas J. Sugrue Carson's lack of experience with urban policy, his bromides about socialist planning, his indifference to fair housing and his calls for individual boot-strapping don’t bode well for the future of metropolitan America.

Trump questionnaire recalls dark history of ideology-driven science by Paul N. Edwards The Trump questionnaire harks back to the McCarthyist “red scare” of the early 1950s, when congressional committees and the FBI hounded eminent scientists accused of communist leanings.

Obama Administration Report Card on Foreign Policy by Jeremy Kuzmarov Grade: C-

‘Even though I am a girl…’ by Roshanna Sylvester John Glenn’s fan mail and sexism in the early space program

The World Fears Trump’s America by Mark Moyar That’s a Good Thing.