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Article: It IS Happening Here - Will Fascism take hold in America or will the principles For Which It Stands prevail?

Article: It IS Happening Here - Will Fascism take hold in America or will the principles For Which It Stands prevail?

<p>Richard White and Brad DeLong consider how the megabillionaire's bid for Twitter stacks up against other efforts by the ultra-rich to build media empires – is it more about attention and less about advancing financial interests? </p>

Historical biography is a perennially popular genre, but in academia, “great man” accounts of history have been unfashionable for a couple of generations. Most historians focus on broad structural factors. They are not wrong. The great man theory is a limited frame through which to view history, not least because it ignores half the human population. It remains useful though — underrated, even — as a way to understand leadership in an era of hyperpartisanship. The current emphasis on str...

The Trump Trial Wouldn’t Have Been Possible Without This Impeachment The House managers in 1876 thought they had established a precedent. They did not count on modern Republicans. Secretary of War William Belknap resigned moments before being impeached in 1876.Credit...Library of Congress/Corbis -- VCG, via Getty Images By Richard White Mr. White is a historian who has written extensively about Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and the making of modern America. He has twice been a finalist fo...

Join Executive clemency wasn’t meant to be controversial. The Constitutional power to “grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States” was intended for acts of compassion. In the Federalist Papers (no. 74), Alexander Hamilton wrote that justice could seem too cruel, too brutal if it never made exceptions for the “unfortunate” guilty. An act of clemency, he said, might “restore the tranquility of the commonwealth.” And since groups of men too often encouraged e...