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Michael Kazin

Michael Kazin’s most recent book is What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. He is a professor of history at Georgetown University.

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February 27, 2014
Michael Kazin
One Upshot of Shrinking the Army: It'll Be Easier to Kick Our Foreign-Intervention Habit
February 11, 2014
Michael Kazin
The Civil Rights Act Was Not As Important As You Think
It was what came after that changed everything
January 20, 2014
Michael Kazin
Slavery Is Having a Hollywood Moment. What About the Rest of Black History in America?
December 13, 2013
Michael Kazin
An Idiotic Israel Boycott Obscures Real Progress in Campus Activism
November 21, 2013
Michael Kazin
We Don't Need Another JFK
Fifty years later, Kennedy's legend makes life at the White House harder for Democrats
October 29, 2013
Michael Kazin
A Kind Word for Ted Cruz: America Was Built on Extremism
How unpopular opinions move history forward
September 30, 2013
Michael Kazin
Why Aren't Those New, Millennial Liberals Protesting the Shutdown?
September 17, 2013
Michael Kazin
Americans Were War-Weary Long Before Iraq
August 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
The White Man Whose 'March on Washington' Speech You Should Remember Too
August 8, 2013
Michael Kazin
The Father of America's 'Civil Religion' Has Died
July 16, 2013
Michael Kazin
On the 50th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination, Don't Bother with the Tributes
June 26, 2013
Michael Kazin
Daniel Ellsberg, the Original Big Leaker
Why a decades-old act of defiance still hasn't been surpassed
June 4, 2013
Michael Kazin
The Forgotten President
Woodrow Wilson was as important as FDR or LBJ. Why aren't we celebrating his 100th anniversary?
May 13, 2013
Michael Kazin
How Labor Learned to Love Immigration
April 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
Earth Day Once Mattered. Why Doesn't It Anymore?
April 2, 2013
Michael Kazin
Before Stonewall
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
February 26, 2013
Michael Kazin
Sheryl Sandberg is No Betty Friedan
What a new movement doesn't get about the origins of feminism
February 6, 2013
Michael Kazin
Who Are You Calling a Liberal?
If Obama is liberalism's standard bearer, liberalism's in bad shape
January 17, 2013
Michael Kazin
A Short History of Meaningless Inauguration Speeches
December 15, 2012
Michael Kazin
We'll All Miss Unions When They're Gone

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