partisanship

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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.