Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The fight is over two fundamentally different ideas about the nature of America. On one side are those who believe that that… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Even after women got the vote in 1920, the idea that they stood for home and family helped to keep them from… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Americans are right to wonder if, at long last, what George Washington called the Great Experiment has failed, and that our founders… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's alliance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America's own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
