Richardson attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Yesterday, news broke that in November, President Joe Bidens lawyers found a small number of classified documents from his vice-presidential years in a locked closet in Bidens former office at Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Eventually, she found a job at UMass Amherst in 2004 to test it out, fearing that if she stopped listening to her invitations, people would stop inviting her. On Nov. 21, 2016, two years after publishing her most recent book, a conservative group by the name of Turning Point USA launched a new website called Professor Watchlist, on which it listed close to 200 college professors who it claimed had, records of targeting students for their viewpoints, forcing students to adopt a certain perspective, and/or abuse or harm students in any way for standing up for their beliefs.. 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She received both her B.A. When Reagan used this argument, he emphasized its idea of economic individualism over its racism, but that racism was definitely there, and many of his supporters heard it. [4] The newsletter became popular because of her calm voice, with straightforward explanations of the news of the day. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base. I lived the whole war, and finally, Lee surrenders. She called on another girl who was eager to refute the point just made. She will discuss the current state of American government and politics, and where we go from here. But 139 Republicans, including McCarthy himself, voted in 2021 to challenge electors from a number of states and went on to embrace the Big Lie, and McCarthys staunchest supporter is extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Bannon is close to Bolsonaros son, who has been seen hobnobbing with Trump-affiliated people, including Trumps daughter Ivanka. About 70 new members brought their families to Washington, D.C., to watch their swearing in, and the extra days as the speakership contest drags on are becoming hard to manage. The chaos suggests that Republican leadership does not have the skills it needs to govern. Goldman deserves one of the Democratic seats on the panel so he can pulverize Jim Jordan. You cant use it to explain historical change. [6] Richardson also co-hosts the podcast Now & Then with fellow historian Joanne B. Richardson, who was briefly included on the list, was more annoyed than upsetthat her hard work was dismissed as leftist propaganda, that her credibility was in-question, and, most of all, that the forum of academic debate was shamed and discouraged from its pursuit of truth. A Democratic state representative told Morgan Trau of ABC News, Speaker Stephens led a coalition of moderate lawmakers from across the aisle, who will now focus on delivering the common sense solutions that Ohioans sent us here to deliver. 65. Richardson surely knows that at the time of the red scare the word liberal was often used by the right as a euphemism for Jew. She was struck by how fiercely her new friends despised Democratswhom they dismissed as freeloadersand how blindly they loved Reagan. Here, she absents us from the discussion. As of 2021 Heather Cox Richardson's age is 59 years . Please try again or choose an option below. ". OR, And it expressly violates the Espionage Act to "willfully retain[]" sensitive national defense information "and fail[] to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it." Richardson has written six books on American history, and is the co-editor of "We're History," an American history publication written by scholars. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance points out that the Department of Justice will never allow such a thing but dealing with the committee will waste time and resources. Two decades ago, Jewish American historian Leonard Dinnerstein wrote that Jew-hatred was declining in the United States. That Republicans now have a wing openly determined to destroy the federal government is not a function of a few outliers who have wormed their way into Congress; it is the logical outcome of this worldview. Now they cant even agree on a speaker. In three ballots yesterday, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) could not muster a majority of the House to back him, as a group of 20 far-right Republicans are backing their own choices. OPINIONS First, that early settlers are basically aristocrats. The great 20th century historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that Jews have contributed nothing to Western civilization since the writing of the Talmud. The Repub gridlock in choosing a Speaker might put the "fun" back in "dysfunctional", but it is a potentially dangerous thing not to have a functioning House.This might take a constitutional amendment, but it is clear that rules regarding Speaker of the House need to change to prevent government paralysis. However, the past four years has seen sharp increases in Jew-hatred, e.g. I doubt her days at Andover and Harvard included the study of Jewish contributions to Western Civilization. and after that, her Ph.D., all under the guidance of Donald. He did his show from the Rayburn Reception Room of the House of Representatives, interviewing Republican congress members so they could repeat talking points. As of December 2020, Richardson was "the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack" and on track to bring in a million dollars of revenue a year. In those years, a party that believed the government had a role to play in leveling the countrys economic and racial playing fields was captured by a reactionary right wing determined to uproot any such government action. Happening right now: Inspired by Eric Foners work on pre-Civil War Republican ideology, Richardson analyzed Republican economic policies during the war. Just last night, in his apparent realization that the party is moving beyond him, Trump launched a new attack on Black Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, falsely accusing her once again of delivering suitcases of fraudulent ballots in the 2020 presidential election to steal victory from him. Worth remembering: Nancy Pelosi just ran the House for two years with the exact same margin. For example, during her Facebook lecture on the fifties red scare (she gives wonderful lectures at four on Facebook every Tuesday and Thursday), Richardson never mentioned that Jews were disproportionately targeted. He refused for a year, then let them recover 15 boxes that included classified documents, withholding others. Incorrect password. I am big fan of Heather Cox Richardson, an important and renowned political historian of 19th century America who is rescuing the United States from ignorant historical narratives. As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Thank God for David Donald, because it went into print almost unchanged, Richardson said. Richardsons experience in high school, which she says is still the most intellectually impressive setting in which shes studied, continues to inform her teaching style today. One of the things McCarthy did agree to was the creation of a select subcommittee in the Judiciary Committee to investigate the weaponization of the federal government. By a party line vote, the House today approved that committee to investigate what Republicans insist is an anti-Republican bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice. The Republicans won a narrow majority in the House of Representatives in 2022aided by gerrymandering and new laws that made it harder to votebut they remain unable to come together to elect a speaker. The saga continued today with three more ballots; McCarthy still came up short. According to Professor Michael W. Fitzgerald, at St. Olaf College: "The Death of Reconstruction" is an important book on a big topic. National security scholar Maria W. Norris of Coventry University, who is covering events in Brazil, reports that today, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva gathered around him the president of the supreme court and the governors or vice-governors of each state, the senators, the attorney general, and congressional representatives, all of whom condemned the coup. The lecture did not posit why Sacajawea earned a spot on a coin and Quanah Parker received a town of Texas, or why no student had even heard of Eastman, who went to Dartmouth and Boston University Medical School. DIVERSITY AUDIT I went on. The roots of todays Republican worldview lie in the Reagan Revolution of 1980. You report it, turn in the docs, the government does a damage assessment, and that is the end of it. Because it is still unorganized, the House technically has no members. Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws Are Bad Enough. The newly implemented Transparency in Coverage rule, jointly issued by the Department of Labor and HHS, will meaningfully address flaws that pervade the current healthcare system. Milwaukee Independent - A FEAR OF LEGITIMACY: WHEN THE ONLY POLITICAL AGENDA IS TO DENY DEMOCRACY BY IGNITING CULTURE WARS. [9] She received both her B.A. Pundits note that those 20 have supported former president Trumps positions, particularly the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen. [17] Believing a small group of men who controlled all three branches of government were turning the country into a slavocracy, the partys founders united against "slave power". Her newsletter, Letters from an American, covers events in politics. However, they didnt come up with the ideal of equality before the law. I am a historian. By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. "I'm an older woman and I'm speaking to other women about being empowered," Richardson said in 2020. Budding Curmudgeon. Jan 2. Since that day, Sam and I have read Letters from an American every morning, often relating Dr. Richardson's daily focus to our own Western North Carolina politics.. On December 27, 2020, Ben Smith interviewed her for the New York Times. Destruction doesnt take skill at governance; it only requires obstruction. The ex-president said he had taken hundreds of empty folders during his time in office, but did not explain why the DOJ also found dozens of classified documents at his Florida estate. The modern Republicans have always been closely tied to right-wing media, and nothing made that clearer than Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannitys broadcast tonight. Leaders often have to negotiate in order to take powerNancy Pelosi had to bring together a number of factions to win the speakership in 2019but since 1923 those negotiations have been completed before the start of voting. There, from 10 a.m. until late in the afternoon, Richardson read the entire, She returned to Harvard and continued studying for her M.A. Leaders often have to negotiate in order to take powerNancy Pelosi had to bring together a number of factions to win the speakership in 2019but since 1923 those negotiations have been completed before the start of voting. In the years since, party leaders cut taxes and deregulated business while rallying voters with warnings that government policies that regulated business, provided a social safety net, or protected civil rights were socialism that redistributed white tax dollars to minorities. Insurrectionists such as the "Freedom Caucus" could prevent the Electoral certification process. In the 1990s, under the leadership of House speaker Newt Gingrich, Chamber of Commerce lawyer Grover Norquist, and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, the party purged from its ranks traditional Republicans, replacing them with ideological fellow travelers.As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. While at MIT, Richardson found herself in a dark microfilm room again, this time reading, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. . That war is not limited to the 20 far-right Republicans refusing to elect McCarthy speaker. It just seemed kind of pointless to me. [3] Most recently, Richardson started publishing "Letters from an American", a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the larger context of American history. Heather Cox Richardson has a very popular history newsletter on the site, Substack. Shes launched Werehistory.org, a history blog that publishes 1000-word articles relating current affairs to past ones and then infusing often unknown history to suggest a different perspective. In To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (2014), Richardson extended her study of the Republican Party into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The next day, she was removed from the list, and since then, Richardson has been a beacon for objective, historical observations of the ongoings of American politics. Things I'm thinking about, could be wrong about, could be right about, but are far too raw to be published. In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters from an American." But one morning, to conduct research for an approaching paper, Richardson decided to journey down into the dark, cold room in which microfilms were stored. 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