This is the grave of Henry Raymond. Born in 1820 outside of Lima, New York, Raymond grew up in the educated middle classes of that era, with a family proud to talk about their lineage in this country back to the Puritans and whatnot. Me,...
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We had the privilege of speaking to Mark McLay, Lecturer at Lancaster University in the UK, about his recent book The Republican Party and the War on Poverty. This was.
Scott already posted about Viktor Orbán's opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's not hard to understand the backlash among reactionary populists in former Warsaw Pact countries. The revolutions.
I am "attending" the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association next week. By "attending" I mean that I am cancelling my tickets and my hotel room and participating online. My only panels that haven't collapsed are either online or hybrid. On top of...
A man urges people to vote against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance outside an early voting center in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The contested ordinance is a broad.
My wife likes to mock claims that Trump can't possibly be a fascist by quipping that, "if it's not 1930s Europe, then it's just sparkling authoritarianism." In the last few.
We are in that point of the election season when third party diehards make the false claim that the Republicans were a third party. Of course this is at Counterpunch. “Third parties can never win” or so you have heard a thousand times. Except —...
On the off-chance that you're not sufficiently depressed and/or horrified at the direction the Republican party is taking in 2019, here's a dispatch from LGM's Ohio bureau: Back in July,.
I do not understand this whole line of thought in the last few months that the Trump phenomenon is the end of the Republican Party. Michael Cohen writes an obituary.
On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party was founded at a meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ideas of labor, both free and slave, were central to Republican Party ideology and would have massive implications for decades, not only with the end of slavery during the Civil...
When we think of the Republican Party in its early years, we often think of it as a party of freedom because it opposed slavery. But that's way too simplistic.
I'll have more to say about Corey Robin's assessment of Scalia in The Reactionary Mind soon. In the meantime, this insight (p.25) made me think of Newt's recent radical attacks.