Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Breaking and Analysis: Justice Alito for Republican Justices, over the Dissent of Democratic Justices, Rewrites Racial Gerrymandering Standards to Help White Republican States #ELBelectionlawblog.org [This post has been edited and updated.] In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling holding that South Carolina’s congressional map was a racial g...
May 22, 2024open.substack.com Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) called out his Republican colleagues on the floor of the House today for offering “stunts instead of solutions, extremism over bipartisanship.” It’s a shame, he said...
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroomabcnews.go.com Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning ...
An interview with a newsroom leader who speaks the truth about Donald Trump | Press Watchpresswatchers.org I talk to Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn about his clarion call against dishonest both-sidesing in political journalism.
March 8, 2024open.substack.com Last night, Republicans and Democrats offered very different visions of the roles and rights of women in American society. In the State of the Union address, President Joe Biden thanked Vice President...
The ugly reason Trump apparently wants an economic crash in 2024www.msnbc.com Donald Trump is apparently rooting for economic conditions that cause widespread suffering — but in a way that wouldn’t be politically inconvenient for him
The ugly reason Trump apparently wants an economic crash in 2024www.msnbc.com Donald Trump is apparently rooting for economic conditions that cause widespread suffering — but in a way that wouldn’t be politically inconvenient for him
December 29, 2023open.substack.com When asked at a town hall on Wednesday to identify the cause of the United States Civil War, presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley answered that the cause “was bas...
Remember the tenacity of 400,000 Welsh women a century ago. Then use your power to shape events toda...www.theguardian.com As we celebrate the return to Wales of the peace petition sent to the US in the 1920s, we should also harness its spirit of togetherness , says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com Show Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, Ep Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter - Nov 27, 2023
Analysis | Kevin McCarthy was once envious that Democrats ‘look like America’www.washingtonpost.com Speaking at an event on Wednesday, the former Republican leader described how he’d hoped to change the demographics of his conference.
Michigan Law I First to Automatically Register People to Vote As They Leave Prisonboltsmag.org The legislature passed a bill that will also expand automatic voter registration in other ways, including applying it at Medicaid offices, and likely add many new Michiganders to voter rolls.
Skokie kosher shop EJ's Pizzeria vandalized with swastika: VIDEOabc7chicago.com A hate crime investigation is underway after a vandal was caught on surveillance video marking a kosher pizzeria with a swastika in Skokie.
Russian casualties soar by 90% as Putin's generals order furious attacks on small city in east, UK i...www.businessinsider.com Russia has been conducting multiple offensive operations around the Ukrainian-held city of Avdiivka, north of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrailsapnews.com Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers suggest they would have wide latitude to call up units.
Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrailsapnews.com Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers suggest they would have wide latitude to call up units.
Opinion | How Gretchen Whitmer is quietly solving a big problem for Democratswapo.st Bold climate action from the Michigan governor gives the left a new guide for winning back working people.
A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us | George Monb...www.theguardian.com Many of the chemicals being spread as sewage sludge are untested or can’t be assessed. That’s why I’m suing for answers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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