The Study of History is the Search for Truths
“The aim of history class isn’t to get students to love or loathe their country. It’s to prepare them to live in it.”
Read more“The aim of history class isn’t to get students to love or loathe their country. It’s to prepare them to live in it.”
Read moreAnyone that claims to be surprised by Trump supporters invading the Capitol Building is either dishonest or uninformed.
Read moreJosh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and other Republicans promote Trump’s lies about the 2020 election because they think their supporters are stupid enough to believe them.
Read moreJosh Hawley is more responsible than anyone but Donald Trump for the attack on the Capitol Building. He has betrayed his oath to uphold the United States Constitution.
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Read moreHistorians will likely debate whether Donald Trump is the worst president in American history or simply one of the worst. Either way, the historical record will reflect poorly on the Trump Era. Future generations will struggle to understand how and why we lost our way.
Read moreThe calm, normal politics Biden has promised is exactly what they do not want — not merely because of differences of partisanship or policy but because calm and normal no longer appeal. Trumpist Republicans have a serious hedonic treadmill problem.
Read moreAccording to the United States Constitution, the Electoral College has the official responsibility of choosing the President of the United States. In 2020, the Electoral College has voted to elect Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.
Read more“Trump’s presidency ends as it began. Without decency and without dignity.”
Read moreDuring his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump set many goals for the economy under his administration, like raising growth to 3% and eliminating the country’s trade deficit. Even before the coronavirus pandemic ended a decade of expansion, the track record was mixed. Unemployment fell to record lows, but growth never hit the promised levels and the trade deficit worsened.
Read more“Some writers popular on the militant right had been warning that wars don’t always start with a clear, decisive event—an attack, a coup, an invasion—and that you might not realize you’re in one until it’s underway.”
Read more“The election is over. But pro-Trump media outlets are helping Trump spin the narrative that it isn’t.”
Read moreTucker Carlson is not a credible source for news. Fox News and a US Federal District Court Judge appointed by Donald Trump agree.
Read moreThis collapse of a major political party as a moral governing force is unlike anything we have seen in modern American politics.
Read moreWhat we know now is that there are two Americas separated by very different visions of both the present and the future. Trump’s America is angry and in a mood to keep tearing down the institutions it feels have turned against it. Biden’s country is aghast that there are people who don’t see the very different future it does.
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