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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
12/26/2022
Conflicting Values Explain Political Differences
by Walter G. Moss
From climate to war, differences in basic values are expressed in political conflict.
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12/18/2022
Fear Was on the 2022 Ballot, with More in Store for '24
by Joe Renouard
Political advertising in the midterm campaigns focused on fear. There's little reason to expect anything different in two years.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/1/2022
Fed Up with Emails from Democratic Pols? You're Not Alone
by Lara Putnam and Micah Sifry
The Democratic Party's strategy of electronic communications to raise fear and money is backfiring, as voters see little change despite their contributions. The party must reach people at their doorsteps, not through their inboxes.
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SOURCE: New York Times
Should Black Northerners Move Back to the South?
by Tanisha C. Ford
Historian Tanisha C. Ford reviews Charles M. Blow's book, which advocates for a Reverse Great Migration to empower both Black Americans and progressive policies. She concludes it's an intriguing idea but oversimplifies the history of migration, disenfranchisement, and activism by Black southerners and their allies.
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SOURCE: Politico
11/4/2020
The Political Scientist Who Warned Us About Polls
by David Greenberg
Political scientist Lindsay Rogers had been warning about the inadequacies of polling for years before the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" prediction. It appears the news media has failed to learn from his advice.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/12/2020
Veterans Go to Washington--So What?
by Nan Levinson
Speculation about the effects of electing veterans to national office is seldom historically informed. Although it's assumed military experience and leadership would shape a legislator's vote, today's partisanship is probably the biggest influence.
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SOURCE: TIME
5/4/2020
How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Groundless Traffic Ticket Changed History's Course
by Michael Warren
The incident, that took place on this day 60 years ago, proved to be the catalyst for electoral change.
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SOURCE: The Dispatch
4/26/2020
There’s a Question My Confederate Ancestors Taught Me To Ask
by David French
Tribalism affected both abolitionists and Confederates during the Civil War. How does it impact modern politics?
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
4/21/2020
Republican-Led Senate Panel Confirms That Russia Backed Trump in 2016
The intelligence committee refutes the president’s unfounded claims by giving an Obama-era report its seal of approval.
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SOURCE: NPR
4/17/2020
Did Gender Keep Democratic Women From Winning The Presidential Primary?
Gender was definitely a factor in this year's Democratic primaries. How could it not be after what the party has seen over the past four years? But the ways in which attitudes about gender impacted the outcome are varied and, of course, more than a bit complicated.
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SOURCE: Vox
4/17/2020
How the Coronavirus Might Upend the November Election
Author David Daley on coronavirus and the threat to voting rights.
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SOURCE: Vox
4/19/2020
What the Anti-Stay-At-Home Protests Are Really About
They’re part of a Trumpian strategy from some conservative groups to reshape public opinion.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/17/2020
We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America
The striking new Hulu miniseries "Mrs. America" reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.
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SOURCE: History.com
4/13/2020
How Americans Have Voted Through History: From Voices to Screens
From shouting candidates' names, to hanging chads to electronic scanning, the nature of voting has a long, sometimes bumpy history in the United States.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
4/14/2020
Might the Coronavirus Be a Peacemaker?
Historian Tom Engleheart uses his past book "The End of Victory Culture" to propose how politics may function in a post-coronavirus world.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
4/13/2020
The Ditherer-in-Chief
by Edward J. Larson
Previous presidents have cemented their legacies by acting decisively in times of crisis. Trump… not so much.
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SOURCE: Lapham's Quarterly
4/7/2020
Presidential Approval Rating
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
George Washington tries to give the public what it wants.
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SOURCE: The New Atlantis
4/8/2020
Prudence in a Storm
by Yuval Levin
Restrained action in a crisis is no wiser than panic in normal times.
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SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
4/13/2020
What People Power Looks Like in a Pandemic Democracy
by Corey Robin
How will democracy function under quarantine? History may have the answer.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/12/2020
The Second-Most-Dangerous Contagion in America: Conservative Irrationality
by Max Boot
Trump and the conservative media's rhetoric around coronavirus poses a threat to the general welfare of Americans.
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