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A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 election

More than five months after President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, Democrats are still trying to understand why they lost the election and the Senate majority – and how the party can regroup.

The Conversation

How an anti-evolution law a century ago set up an infamous showdown over religion in public schools

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms

The Independent UK

Warning of ‘oligarchy,’ Biden channels Andrew Jackson

In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection. President Joe Biden’s, delivered five days before he left office, began that way, with a celebration of America’s promise and of its progress under his tenure.

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Not like '68: DNC is back in Chicago

Chicago has been home to Democratic conventions both triumphant and disastrous

Salon

How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

The Conversation

The stakes have never been higher

Forget New Hampshire and look at what the country would look like under a second Biden or Trump administration

Salon

My convos with Kissinger, a man I hated

The last time I spoke with Kissinger, he rambled on about Playboy, Hugh Hefner and how great it all was “back then"

Salon

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Ghost of William Jennings Bryan haunts Trump's next run for the White House

Comparisons between the two began cropping up early in 2016, right about the time former President Trump's candidacy was bringing the word "populist" back into the daily political conversation.

WEKU

‘It’s crazy’: Billionaire owner wants to move Jennings Bryan’s historic Miami villa

Billionaire Miami newcomer Ken Griffin, who has received an effusive welcome from local politicians as he moves his Citadel financial empire to the Magic City from Chicago, wants them to do something for him: Take one of the city’s most significant historic homes off his hands.

Miami Herald

Can Democrats seize the momentum?

Headlines of the last two months should give Democrats a fighting chance in the midterms. Do they know how to win?

Salon

'Boris Johnson was good at bagging top jobs despite being a useless opportunist'

Keir Mudie says Boris Johnson tore everything up in the pursuit of what he decided was his destiny: Prime Minister, a couple of election wins, statues, the Golden Age of Boris

Daily Mirror

Roe draft is a reminder that religion's role in politics is older than the republic

The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.

WEKU

The draft Roe ruling is a reminder that religion's role is older than the Republic

The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.

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