It’s happened before. History underscores how rickety our elections and democracy are.
Abraham Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln Reconsidered
Abraham Lincoln’s widow has been lampooned as a narcissistic nut job, but her life of pain and loss was far more nuanced.
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A Better Celebration of America at 250
The new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft museum enshrines America’s highest ideals, however unrealized.
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The Heart of America Still Beats for Connection
The National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Annual Heart of America Survey shows Americans worrying about economic pressure and craving leaders who end polarization.
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Mary Todd Lincoln Reconsidered
Abraham Lincoln’s widow has been lampooned as a narcissistic nut job, but her life of pain and loss was far more nuanced.
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Birthright Citizenship and the Making of Citizens
The Supreme Court case over Trump’s efforts to abolish birthright citizenship raises larger questions about blood, soil, and how we become Americans
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The Charlie Kirk Assassination: More Than Just Murder
The law makes distinctions between killings, and there’s a reason political assassination deserves a special circle of Hell.
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Listen, MAGA: Presidents Rarely Defy the Courts
Trump and his MAGA allies may point to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and others, but if he balks at judicial orders, he’ll be an outlier.
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The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon!
The Washington Monthly unearths the unknown 1858 debate in which the very nasty–and, frankly, very rude–press corps is totally unfair to Mr. Lincoln, our second greatest president after Donald J. Trump.
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Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together?
Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together? A new national poll suggests it very much can.
