Category: Heather Richardson
GOP power vacuum: Congress avoids U.S. government shutdown before holidays in snub to Musk and Trump
by Heather Cox Richardson | Dec 21, 2024 | Heather Richardson
The House of Representatives passed a measure to fund the government for three months in the late...
Read MoreDefending Democracy: Doris Miller’s legacy at Pearl Harbor faces Trump’s authoritarian ambitions
by Heather Cox Richardson | Dec 7, 2024 | Heather Richardson
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard...
Read MoreDemocracy Defended: South Koreans overturn stunning self-coup and reverse Martial Law in 6 hours
by Heather Cox Richardson | Dec 3, 2024 | Heather Richardson
For an astonishing six hours today, South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its unpopular...
Read MoreReshaping government: Why Movement Conservatives attacked the liberal consensus to subvert democracy
by Heather Cox Richardson | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Heather Richardson
Cas Mudde, a political scientist who specializes in extremism and democracy, observed recently on...
Read MorePresident Biden pardons son Hunter citing unfair treatment and political weaponization of justice
by Heather Cox Richardson | Dec 3, 2024 | Heather Richardson
President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence...
Read MorePlymouth Myths: How Abraham Lincoln reinvented Thanksgiving amid the bloodshed of Civil War
by Heather Cox Richardson | Nov 28, 2024 | Heather Richardson
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, but not for the reasons we generally...
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