Abraham Lincoln’s widow has been lampooned as a narcissistic nut job, but her life of pain and loss was far more nuanced.
Ulysses S. Grant
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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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Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. The Netflix miniseries is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant
Trump’s Defense Secretary said he’d stop drinking if confirmed. A recovering alcoholic explains why the first year of sobriety is so hard and how the Civil War general and president got control.
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Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten War
The 18th president continued his Civil War battles with an all-out fight against the Ku Klux Klan. The history books barely mention it.
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Trump and the Republican War on the Civil Service
In recent months, Donald Trump’s campaign and conservative action groups have developed a coordinated strategy to gut the federal civil service, effectively returning the United States government to the spoils system of the nineteenth century. Under this plan, Trump, if returned to office, would issue an executive order called “Schedule F,” which would reclassify the […]
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Can Trump’s Pardons Be Reversed?
President Ulysses S. Grant did it, and George W. Bush, and the Constitution would seem to encourage it.
