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- April 18th, 2024
Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson might be the most widely-read political commentator in the country. Her “Letters From an American” is the #1 most-read Substack blog, with millions of subscribers. There, she “bring[s] a historian’s confident context to...
In April 1973, a 13-judge bench of the Supreme Court in a 7:6 majority delivered the establishment’s most consequential verdict. Known because the Kesavananda Bharati case, it declared that Parliament’s right to amend the Constitution will not be unfettered. An...
Here’s one thing that shouldn’t actually be information to anybody in America. U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are presenting proof to a federal grand jury about Donald Trump’s legal try to violently overthrow our democracy on Jan. 6, 2021. Of course,...
Midnight in WashingtonHow We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Couldby Adam SchiffRandom House, 510 pp., $30 Vilification is one of the major weapons in Donald Trump’s political arsenal. Over the 4 years of the Trump presidency, maybe nobody was...