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2/21/2021
"Hamilton" and Politics Today
by Donald J. Fraser
The phenomenally successful "Hamilton" takes some liberties with its subject, but it still offers some valuable perspective on our politics today.
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SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
2/8/2021
In America’s ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are The Aggressors
Thomas Zimmer and Joanne Freeman represent historians among the scholars commenting on the asymetric polarization of American politics.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
2/5/2021
What Lincoln Understood About Unity
by Harold Holzer
"The fact is, even the most eloquent calls for harmony seldom repair a house divided — not without the accompaniment of painful but unavoidable choices about national policy and purpose."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/16/2020
Just Forget About Donald Trump
by Peter Wehner
It may be difficult for many Americans to let go of deep anger at Donald Trump and the political movement he represents, but it will be necessary.
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11/1/2020
Post-Election America Will Still Be Deeply Divided
by Joe Renouard
Congressional gridlock, eroding public trust, and partisan polarization are not media creations; they are observable and measurable realities.
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SOURCE: Politico
10/13/2020
How SCOTUS Nominations Became All-Out War
by Robert L. Tsai
The rise of national parties, the use of the judiciary to advance policy goals, and the decision of Republican leadership to consolidate a narrow electoral base have made judicial nominations a partisan battle the Founders did not adequately anticipate, according to American U. Law professor Robert Tsai.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/26/2020
Trump Turns Shared American Experiences Into Us vs. Them
Nostalgia for a time when Democratic leaders could embrace Republican leaders in a moment of crisis — and when a bipartisan group would gather for an annual roasting in Washington.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/1/2020
We Can Finally See the Real Source of Washington Gridlock
by Adam Serwer
Washington gridlock stems from the ideological conviction, held by much of the Republican Party, that the Democratic Party is inherently illegitimate and has no right to govern.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/19/2020
Deep Political Fissures May Worsen the Coronavirus Outbreak
by Jordan E. Taylor
During a massive outbreak of yellow fever in the nation’s then-capital city, Philadelphia, members of the earliest parties in the United States took advantage of medical uncertainty to advance partisan agendas.
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SOURCE: Snopes
7/28/2019
‘I’m Not a Traitor, You Are!’ Political Argument from the Founding Fathers to Today’s Partisans
American history is filled with examples where one partisan side alleges that some idea embraced by the other side threatens to compromise American national strength or sovereignty.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/25/19
Historians on Impeachment
Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe?
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SOURCE: NY Review of Books
3-6-18
Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War
by Manisha Sinha
We would do well to pay heed to the old enmities bubbling up in our politics: it is not that we are on the verge of another civil war, but that the Civil War never truly ended.
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3/4/18
Worried About Political Partisanship?
by Gordon S. Wood
Adams and Jefferson showed that even the harshest partisans can enjoy a warm friendship. (It helped that they had a common enemy.)
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SOURCE: WSJ
2-2-18
Gordon Wood, the noted historian of early America, says Adams’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Republicans were far more divided than today’s political parties
What was striking about the 1790s, Mr. Wood emphasizes, is the extent to which each party sincerely believed the other posed an existential threat.
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10-22-17
No One Should Be Surprised We’re so Polarized
by Richard Archer
We have a history of being divided.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-12-17
Partisanship is an American tradition — and good for democracy
by Aaron Astor
Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.
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SOURCE: OUP blog
3-24-15
Murky waters: partisanship and foreign policy
by Lewis L. Gould
It’s time to retire the hoary phrase about politics and the water’s edge. It was never a guiding principle of American foreign policy before 1900.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1-16-14
Our Politics May Be Polarized. But That’s Nothing New.
by David W. Brady and Hahrie Han
Political science provides an answer.
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