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Originally published 05/25/2017
Alabama governor signs law giving thousands of felons their right to vote back
The state has been relying on a century-old, white supremacist phrase to disenfranchise felons.
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Originally published 09/21/2016
Why Do We Vote on Tuesdays?
Jennifer Freilach
And why is it in November?
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Originally published 11/10/2015
Politics and the New Machine
Jill Lepore
What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy.
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Originally published 01/26/2015
Professor says right to vote in U.S. ‘has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship’
"It is true that in the 18th and 19th centuries lots of people who were not United States citizens were voting at every level of government."
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Originally published 11/14/2013
Block on rare Napoleon death mask leaving UK
The plaster mask was sold for £175,000 to an overseas buyer earlier this year by a descendant of the brother of its original owner.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s
The Infectious Texts project is mapping virality in nineteenth-century newspapers.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Forbidden City builders chose ice sledge over wheels
Chinese engineers used an ice road to drag stones to build the Forbidden City.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Ranks of Holocaust survivors shrinking at Chicago retirement home
In its heyday, the Selfhelp Home bustled with refugees.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Civil War topics part of D.C. history conference
The 40th Annual Historical Studies Conference meets Nov. 14 thru 17.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
‘The Pike,’ a biography of Italian fascist D’Annunzio, wins Samuel Johnson Prize in nonfiction
Lucy Hughes-Hallett will be awarded $32,000.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Finding Life After Academia — and Not Feeling Bad About It
The Times profiles the Versatile PhD.
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Originally published 11/05/2013
Rethinking German Pacifism
Jochen Bittner
Has Europe’s strongest nation really chosen to become the world’s biggest Switzerland?
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Originally published 11/05/2013
The Decline of the Tea Party
Bruce Bartlett
There are signs of a pushback.
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Originally published 11/04/2013
Solved: The Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Death
Crash injuries suggest he was the first of the boy racers
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Originally published 11/04/2013
Report of Nazi-Looted Trove Puts Art World in an Uproar
Authorities found an apartment building hiding 1,500 works of art confiscated under the Nazi regime in Munich.
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Originally published 11/04/2013
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Originally published 11/04/2013
In NYC's Election, a Learning Curve, Not a Pendulum Swing
Jim Sleeper
Bill de Blaiso's election is NOT a throwback to the "rainbow" coalition.
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Originally published 11/04/2013
Prepare to Welcome Our Troops Home from Afghanistan
Vaughn Davis Bornet
America's longest war will soon be over.
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Originally published 05/23/2013
Michael Lind: Voting is Not a Right
Michael Lind is the author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States and co-founder of the New America Foundation. Is it time, at long last, for the citizens of the United States to enjoy the constitutional right to vote for the people who govern them?Phrased in that way, the question may come as a shock. The U.S. has waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan justified, at least in rhetoric, by the claim that people deserve the right to vote for their leaders. Most of us assume that the right to vote has long been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.Not according to the Supreme Court. In Bush v. Gore (2000), the Court ruled that “[t]he individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States.” That’s right. Under federal law, according to the Supreme Court, if you are a citizen of the United States, you have a right to own a firearm that might conceivably be used in overthrowing the government. But you have no right to wield a vote that might be used to change the government by peaceful means....
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Originally published 03/27/2013
Voting Against Freedom
With its inspiring images of citizens around the Middle East taking to the streets to demand an end to dictatorship, the Arab Spring rekindled our faith in democracy. As the dramatic events unfolded on television, it was impossible not to believe that however tightly autocrats may try to hold on to power, and however messy transitions may be, in the end, despotism must yield to the will of the people....
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Originally published 07/11/2017
Why Americans Voted For Trump
Steve Hochstadt
Too many Trump supporters take their beliefs in what is right as license to be hateful toward people who are not like them. Combine that with nostalgia for a time when blacks had to defer to whites, men could grope women, and gays stayed in the closet, and you have a Republican Party which cuts health insurance for millions of Americans, which keeps foreign students from returning to their American universities, which cuts federal programs for Americans in need.
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Originally published 11/14/2016
Burying the Hatchet. Literally.
Gil Troy
Gracious concessions, even if insincere, also legitimize the results and our democracy.
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Originally published 11/14/2016
What Happened on Election Day: The Example of Ronald Reagan
Gil Troy
Reagan used the transition period to heal wounds while claiming a broad policy mandate, despite winning only 50.7 percent of the popular vote.
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Originally published 11/07/2016
2016 In Context: An Election Night Rx for PTSD (Pre-Trump-Clinton-Election Stress Disorder)
Gil Troy
It is time to start thinking about the day after and how to heal the country.
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Originally published 11/04/2016
2016 In Context: The Peeping Tom – and Tammy – Election
Gil Troy
Our age of electronic voyeurism has created a nation of Peeping Toms and Tammys.
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Originally published 11/03/2016
2016 In Context: Understanding "Clintipathy" ... A Pathological Hatred of the Clintons
Gil Troy
One part totally rational; one part sexist and unfair.
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Originally published 11/02/2016
2016 In Context: Donald Trump's Best - And Worst - Moments in Public Service
Gil Troy
Having looked back at the 1990s, listing the ten best and ten worst Clinton moments in public service, let's look at Hillary Clinton's rival, Donald Trump through a similar lens.
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Originally published 11/01/2016
2016 In Context: 10 Clinton Moments to Remember
Gil Troy
Best moments of Clinton's presidency, as described in The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s.
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Originally published 10/28/2016
2016 in Context: 10 Clinton Moments We Wish We Could Forget
Gil Troy
As Hillary Clinton runs for president, she should resurrect her husband's centrism, but no one wants a rerun - especially of these low points of Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Originally published 10/27/2016
2016 In Context: The Boomers' Civil War Continues with 2016
Gil Troy
In many ways, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are Borderline candidates, flouting rules, juggling identities, shifting moods.
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Originally published 10/25/2016
2016 In Context: In this Crazy Election, Most American Jews Are Acting Normal
Gil Troy
After Election Day, responsible leaders from both parties must denounce the hatred unleashed – against Jews and others – as part of the healing America desperately needs following this ugly, tumultuous campaign.
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Originally published 10/24/2016
2016 In Context: The Rhino Who Won an Election by a Landslide
Gil Troy
With two of the most unpopular candidates ever, many voters are weighing a protest vote or staying home. Citizens of São Paulo once took a different approach—and elected an animal.
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Originally published 10/23/2016
Hillary Clinton Should Embrace Her Centrism
Gil Troy
2016 In Context
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Originally published 10/21/2016
Donald Trump Resurrects Hooverism - a disastrous Republican strategy
Gil Troy
2016 In Context
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Originally published 10/20/2016
The Candidates are uninspiring but not the most corrupt - by far
Gil Troy
2016 In Context
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Originally published 10/19/2016
How Bill Clinton's Presidency Spawned Donald Trump's Candidacy
Gil Troy
2016 In Context
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Originally published 10/18/2016
In Praise of Abandoning Your Party
Gil Troy
Trump calls GOP defectors 'disloyal.' But the Founders would approve.
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