Our disgrace is that they had to be.
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews has worked as a political aide, author, broadcast host, and journalist. He is the author of This Country: My Life in Politics and History and Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. He is a senior fellow at The Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
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The Hardball Way to Push Republicans to Vote for Infrastructure
Democrats have to get tougher by sounding the alarm about collapsing bridges and dangerous roads in each GOP district and state.
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Why Concession Speeches Matter
Trump’s refusal to admit electoral defeat is even more poisonous than you think.
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Blinken’s Mideast Mission Underscores Egypt’s Vital Role
The secretary of state’s Cairo summit is a reminder of how Jimmy Carter’s courage and Egyptian peace with Israel changed the world.
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What Joe Biden Learned from Ronald Reagan About Governing
The president understands the importance of serving your base and passing bills that really matter to them.
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The Mondale I Knew
As a Jimmy Carter speechwriter, I saw the Minnesotan as a groundbreaker—the first modern VP. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris owe him a debt.
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Ernest Hemingway, the Darkness and the Light
The Ken Burns documentary shows the old man’s better angels and his unspeakable cruelty.
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What I Learned Teaching Students In Vietnam
Call it closing-the-distance learning. Thanks to guest lecturers like Joy Reid and Margaret Carlson, I saw how shared understanding bridges the Washington-Hanoi divide.
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Jimmy Carter’s Powerful Message on Voting Rights
He’s monitored more than 100 elections around the world. Now he’s taking on GOP efforts to suppress the vote in the State of Georgia and across the country.
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How to Make Congress Stronger
It’s time to kill the filibuster, return to regular order, and obey the budget law instead of threatening the parliamentarian.
