Reconstructing American Politics
Trump, Failed Political Regimes, and the Illiberal Politics of the Future
Ronald Reagan
Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.
Jamie Lee Curtis: "I Fully Support the Second Amendment."
After being trolled by Fox News, the Halloween actress ends up echoing Reagan when it comes to waiting periods and assault-weapon bans.
Echoes of Reagan in Trump's Clashes With Allies
Take a look at what The New York Times and others were saying about The Gipper in 1982 before you judge The Trumpster in 2018.
How To Understand The Americans Finale: Q&A with Show Creators Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields
One of the best, most-political and most-personal TV shows ever just ended. What did it all mean?
Exclusive: Ronald Reagan's 1980 Election Eve Speech Draft Was Lost to History. Until Now.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
The Ever-Shifting Politics of the Department of Education
Supported by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, opposed by Shirley Chisholm and Jerry Brown—the department has a long history of scrambling political alliances.
Trump on Energy: 'The Best of Any President Since Reagan'? Q/A With Alex Epstein
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
A New Look at the Kennedy-Reagan Growth Recipe
JFK and the Reagan Revolution argues that America can return to prosperity by looking to the Kennedy-Reagan model of income tax cuts and a strong, stable dollar.
Good Thing John Hinckley Jr. Only Shot the President. If He Sold Drugs, He Might Still Be Locked Up.
Attempted murder? 35 years in a hospital. Nonviolent drug charges? Life in prison.
Friday A/V Club: The Contested Convention You Were Promised
Robert Altman's spoof of political conventions
The Darker Side of 'Just Say No'
Nancy Reagan demanded that everyone-not just schoolchildren-parrot her all-or-nothing, black-and-white approach to drugs.
Just Say No to Nancy Reagan's 'Outspoken Intolerance'
The former first lady, who died this week, was wedded to repressive drug policies that hurt many innocent people.
Nancy Reagan, First Lady from 1981 to 1989, Dies at 94
Mrs. Reagan was staunch advocate of War on Drugs, later bucked Republican party by pushing for stem cell research.
Ted Cruz Falsely Lays Claim to Reagan Mantle
The Gipper and Cruz are near total opposites on immigration and amnesty
About That 1980 Iowa Debate Ronald Reagan Skipped
It wasn't because he thought someone was mean to him, and after the Iowa caucus Reagan realized he had made a mistake.
Did Star Wars Kill the New Hollywood, Pave the Way for Reagan, and Make Us a 'Nation of Eight-Year-Olds'?
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
What Would Reagan Do About Refugees?
The Gipper handled several influxes of asylum-seekers greater than the trickle of Syrians who have come to America so far
"Reagan Allowed Himself to Imagine a World Without The Soviet Union"
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
How Ronald Reagan's Ghost Haunts the GOP
The Republican Party will never command the future unless it gives up its ridiculous nostalgia for its last great figure.
The GOP's 35-Year Devolution on Immigration
Looking through Republican Party platforms on immigration, from Reagan-Bush to Trump-Carson
Open the Borders—to Trade and to People!
When it come to immigration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Republicans and Democrats sound more like South Park rednecks than statesmen.
How Ronald Reagan Described the Economy in His 7th-Year State of the Union
Comparing the rhetoric of two presidents who inherited economic messes reminds us of the wide gap between their respective recoveries.
Friday A/V Club: Ronald Reagan Says 'Open the Border Both Ways'
George H.W. Bush: "We have made illegal some kinds of labor that I'd like to see legal."
Suspicious Minds in the 1970s
Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
James Brady's Death Ruled a Homicide
As a result of his injuries from the failed Reagan assassination attempt
Copyright Absurdity: Reagan Biographer Gets Paraphrased, Demands $25 Million
This week in preposterous legal threats
Bad Policies Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Most people don't spend much time thinking about government policies, which is why bad ones can persist for years or decades.
Why the U.S. Blew a Chance To Reconcile With Iran
The CIA and Pentagon feared their budgets and staffs would be slashed with the end of the Cold War, and needed a new antagonist.
Rand Paul Is Right: Carter Was Thriftier Than Reagan
The sooner the GOP groks this, the sooner they will support limited goverment.
Ronald Reagan: Hawk, Dove, or 'It's Complicated'?
Republicans check their WWRRD? bracelets.
Former Reagan Spokesman Larry Speakes Dies at 74
Served president after assassination attempt injured James Brady
Vandals Torch Life-Sized Statue of Ronald Reagan at Ronald Reagan Sports Park in California
Park renamed in 2004, statue put up last year
Democrats Point Out Differences Between Rand Paul and Ronald Reagan
Say the former president wouldn't be welcome in today's GOP
Would Ronald Reagan Have Supported Gay Marriage?
His daughter recently speculated he would have
