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12 votes
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What academics can do now to prevent a coup later
5 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
3 votes -
When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
8 votes -
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
27 votes -
Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
7 votes -
An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians
6 votes -
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
16 votes -
Why does the right lie so often?
9 votes -
How compulsory unionization makes us more free
9 votes -
The Turkish century; part 2: The journey of the Turkish Republic
4 votes -
Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
9 votes -
How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
2 votes -
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
7 votes -
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
5 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
5 votes -
Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
8 votes -
What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
5 votes -
Newly released 'Palace letters' reveal Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government in 1975 without giving advance notice to the Queen
8 votes -
Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
7 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
10 votes -
When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
4 votes -
What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans
8 votes -
What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
4 votes -
The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
8 votes -
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery
5 votes -
Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
5 votes -
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
32 votes -
President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
1 vote -
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
8 votes -
Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece
17 votes -
Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
3 votes -
Imperialism is using up the resources that could fight Covid-19
4 votes -
In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
8 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
7 votes -
How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
11 votes -
Political ships of Theseus | The American party switch
7 votes -
Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
6 votes -
The death of the Liberal class
3 votes -
How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India
4 votes -
How Vladimir Putin's Russia has become increasingly unstable
8 votes -
This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
8 votes -
Caesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
4 votes -
The world is experiencing a new form of autocracy
6 votes -
Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
7 votes -
How Bernie Sanders answers a question
23 votes -
The rules for rulers
10 votes