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Rick Perlstein
March 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Loyalists Are Following in Reagan’s Footsteps
What Republicans really learned from Nixon's Watergate scandal
October 11, 2017
Bob Moser
Clintonian Democrats Are Peddling Myths to Cling to Power
Centrists are falsely equating Trump with Nixon, and Sanders with McGovern, because they're scared of what a leftist party means for them.
June 1, 2017
Graham Vyse
Is Trump a New Nixon? Historians Can’t Agree.
Watergate experts are in high demand these days—and torn about it.
June 28, 2016
Jeet Heer
Conservatives Have Groomed the Perfect Suckers for Trump’s Epic Scam
Win or lose, he'll get what he wants out of this campaign.
April 15, 2010
Jonathan Chait
The Tea Party And History
June 18, 2008
Barron YoungSmith
Did It All Start With Nixon?
September 26, 2007
Richard Just
Bed-wetters? Really?
May 7, 2007
Jonathan Chait
The Left's New Machine
April 20, 2007
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