Federal government Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

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

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

Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot.

— Heather Cox Richardson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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