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Kevin Phillips, a strategist for Richard Nixon whose 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority ushered in a new era in American politics, passed away earlier this week. This morning, I joined some other scholars and pundits to offer thoughts on Phillips’ legacy in a short roundtable The Washington Post put
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Yes, I know the social media saying. “This isn’t an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.” And yet, I’m announcing my departure — from Twitter. And since a lot of you got to know me and my work there, I thought I’d make a short
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Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS for paid subscribers. I’ll be using it to share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in the past few years of research for my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights Division
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President Joe Biden made history today by joining the United Auto Workers on a picket line in Michigan. “Wall Street didn’t build this country, the middle class built this country, and unions built the middle class,” he reflected. “That’s a fact, so let’s keep going. You deserve
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Today is the second anniversary of Sarge’s Accident, so I thought I’d take a moment to catch his fans up on his progress. (If you’re not familiar with the story of his accident and have a fairly strong stomach, you can read this thread and catch up
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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of one of the more tragic moments of the civil rights movement — the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the deaths of four little girls inside. Birmingham had a long history of racial violence, of course. The city suffered fifty different
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It seems inevitable now that Republicans will move to impeach President Joe Biden. Cementing his status as the absolute weakest Speaker of the House in modern history, Kevin McCarthy has allowed himself to be bullied by the right-wing cranks of the Freedom Caucus into launching a semi-formal impeachment inquiry. It’
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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for office again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s bar against anyone who previously swore an oath to defend the Constitution but later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [Constitution]
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We’re coming up on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with a major commemoration taking place this Saturday in D.C. and then the actual anniversary coming on Monday. This means, of course, that we’re going to be treated to another round
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When the Republican presidential field meets tonight at the first debate of the primaries, there’s going to be a noticeable absence — former president, current frontrunner and future defendant Donald John Trump. We’ve all become numb to the many ways in which Trump has broken with the norms of
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Sorry for the lighter posting this last week, but I’ve been busy writing the new chapter on the Trump presidency for the updated edition of FAULT LINES. All I had to share was a deep sense of despair and the academic version of PTSD. Good times, good times. But