New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of… — 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
