In these wars, the campaigns of the major party candidates - and occasionally those of third parties - are the central command centers and the voters are the troops. The camp that rallies...
South Carolina had threatened this before in the 1830s during the presidency ofAndrew Jackson, over a tariff that benefited Northern manufacturers but increased the cost of goods in the South. Jackson had vowed to send an army to force the state to stay in the Union, and Congress authorized ...
” Justin Levitt, who worked in the Civil Rights Division during Obama’s presidency, wrote in an email when I asked him about von Spakovsky’s claim. “It’s a little bit like counting up the number of reps in a workout at the gym to try to figure out ...
RELIGION, CIVIL RELIGION, AND CIVIL WAR: FAITH AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE LINCOLN PRESIDENCY 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 49 作者: Andrew R. Murphy 摘要: Abraham Lincoln's reverence for the Union and its preservation took on religious significance. Though Lincoln's personal religious ...
The Civil War-era law, enacted long before Arizona became a state on Feb. 14, 1912, had been blocked since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing the constitutional right to an abortion nationwide. RELATED COVERAGE ...
The new Big Lie among the MAGAts is that there is no such thing as “Palestinians.” The story being circulated on the Right (apparently originatinghere) is that the “Palestinians” are a made-up people invented by Soviet propagandists during the Cold War. They’re really just Arab Muslims...
This was particularly true in the wake of the Enrollment Act—the first effort at a draft among the northern populace during the Civil War. Working-class northerners were especially angry that the wealthy could pay $300 for substitutes, sparing themselves from the carnage of war. “A rich man...
Trump and those who participated in these schemes are also culpable for incitement to commit an insurrection under a specific federal criminal law enacted during the Civil War directed at Southern secessionists and their aiders and abettors. Both of these civil rights federal criminal statutes have ...
Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author ofThe Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Officeand his latest bookCivil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight For Democracy. He hosts the podcastThis is ...
America appears to be at its weakest condition both nationally and internationally (if the two can be considered separately), if not ever, certainly since the Civil War. We’re entering the last few months of the most questionable Presidency in our history, during which the actual levers of ...