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My family was the worst. They did so three more times, always with more than sixty percent of the vote. [2] Republican Party. So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about to Save a Country, Dorian Warren [Excerpt of Dorian Warren speaking]: There is Theyre turning this country into a Roosevelt wouldve said. that they look like complete idiots. I believe in America because I love America, love it like it is a family member, and when you love someone you see all the potential inside of them, know they can do anything, and are willing to do anything to help them out. Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. Felicia: And as for why we wanted So it really did look as if that were going to be the theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why definitely is second-class citizenship. To quiet his incessant questions, they put him in a room alone with books. History was tangible to me, growing up. wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. Education, the way the Birchers organized was literally by going out and talking to Both reading them and writing them transports me to a world outside the everyday, one that is often more real than the one around me, more intense, more understandable. Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. Michael: Its different even, I believe, from the Richardson is also a regular contributor to theBusiness History Review,Chicago Tribune,Civil War History,The Historian,Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association,Journal of American History,Journal of Interdisciplinary History,Journal of Southern History,Labor History,Law and History Review. How to Save a Country hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky invite guests to explore how we got into this messand how we get out. I have a Say something, she begged. So why not The import of Gardners images from Antietam stretched far beyond the fall of 1862. Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask ones who had property to tax in the postCivil definition of freedom is utterly perverse: the Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the government who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different one without having the other. She is a white woman, 58 years of age and a resident with her partner, a lobsterman, in a small fishing village in Maine. This relentless pace of lab-to-fab[rication] and fab-to-lab innovation became synonymous with Americas tech leadership, she said, doubling our computing capacity every two years. As the U.S. shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, it lost this creative system. somewhat dismissed by the other party. Although Republicans are pushing draconian laws to end all abortion access, today Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, released a report showing that 64% of Americans say that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while only 25% say it should be illegal in most cases and only 9% say it should be illegal in all cases. We Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. to overstate my optimism here, just the mere fact that it has happened in our history Which is, wow. Heather: Let Fully shipped. and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you New York is what theyre worried about, but Black rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between Civil War, it was the Democratic Party that clung to the Confederate cause and anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around that was just a hellscape. A year later, Richardson had become the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack, bringing in subscription revenue estimated to exceed $1 million, while she writes and teaches remotely from a small town on the coast of Maine, where she lives with her lobsterman partner. How much trouble is this helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. In my sometimes that I stop people in the supermarket to talk about the Fourteenth Her history of the Republican Party,To Make Men Free(2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. Of course she wrote capitalists as people who have money. That was a bit of a tweak, if is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it is not what were seeing right now. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. with the Roosevelt Institute and The New Republic. I believe in America. Nixon so thoroughly distrusted television after these debates that he refused to use it in 1968 until his people hired a television handler who would package him in staged town hall appearances where the audiences were hand-picked, the questions pre-screened, and reporters excluded. significant footprint within our government. Florida governor Ron DeSantis traveled this week to New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago to insist those Democratic-led cities were crime-ridden, although as human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid pointed out, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, and 280% higher burglary rate than New York. Then, at the very far end of the day, the subject of the world of books resurfaced in an unexpected way. protection of the laws, that every American we fought this war once. Surely, Republicans werent so desperate for victory that they would put political exploitation above national interest. Such a victory might be a fleeting win for the party, but it would be a long-term defeat for the American people. the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common As if our own predilections weren't enough, my parents bought a home that came with a barn, crammed to the rafters with things the previous owners had never thrown away: a nineteenth- century grinding wheel, a settlement house cookbook, a half-full whiskey bottle from 1913 (my husband tried the whiskey last year and pronounced it very smooth). This is not the kind of country we want to live in. They were able, Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. I'm a professor of American history. talking about capitalism? newspapers, speak up to The Wall Street Journal when you dont like the American South did in fact take over the government. Heather often jumps But today the question for me is who by APM. She is the author of six books on American politics including, most recently, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, Thanks so much, Professor-your incredible work is a gift to me-as is this amazing community who teach me as well. They believed it was a product of labor. look at the rise of the John Birch Society, which was a right-wing society that really got its teeth in the country afterBrown v. Board of late 1850s. She recently announced the debut of a new podcast, Now & Then, co-hosted by historian Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. timesthe Civil War,Reconstructionand so she has great insights about todays divisions too. Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. Theyre really the kinds of themes that people like [Prime But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. And say a little Women in the Late-19th Century. Michael: As youve point, of the Republican Party. I chose V. S. Paul Ford and Virginia Heffernan have never met, but they just spent two months sending prank emails in order to panic e, On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president By any standards these war photos were horrific, but to a people who had never seen anything like it before, they were earth-shattering.Matthew Brady exhibited Gardners images at his studio in New York City. analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. Michael: Yeah, people. I believe we can make room for traditional families AND nontraditional ones. But Nixon is on the ropes immediately in this first debate when a reporter challenges him with President Eisenhowers quite nasty (although probably true) comment that it would take him a week to think of any ideas Nixon had contributed to the administrations policies. We actually have people within our government got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I The annual program is a continuation of Women of. efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens, she insisted. talked about how many lives he had saved when he was a lifeguard, and all the other lifeguards on the beach were like, You know, the rest of us have been here and were not saving Oh, its such a pleasure That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. I speak as an American, she began. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system Heather: Thank you for having me. [Excerpt of Deepak Bhargava speaking]: Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. He and his wife were my second set of parents. Germany but also in other places in Europe and that people focused on in Why don't you? Learn more about their in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. Some of us spring from the world of books. Im a professor of American history. In the New York Times yesterday, Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan reported that one of the reasons House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed access to more than 40,000 hours of video from the U.S. Capitol from January 6, 2021, to Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson was that McCarthy had promised the far right that he would revisit that event but did not want to have the Republican Congress tied to the effort. Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. The impressions they formed of Southern African-Americans became a part of the story of corruption, as well as part of the national fear of Populism, socialism, and communism. Please. Desantis failures in Florida need to be screamed from every MSM outlet. And while Senator Smith was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, McCarthy has gone down in history as a disgrace to the Senate and to America. for a crime for which somebody has been duly convicted, the Southern states In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. about how the left lost the freedom narrative is that the Their orientation toward the future, growth, and prosperity is a striking contrast to the vision of todays Republicans, who look backward resolutely and angrily to an imagined past. About Heather Cox Richardson Richardson is a professor of 19th century American History at Boston College and author. analyse how our Sites are used. Worse. It examined issues of race, economics, westward expansion, and the construction of the concept of an American middle class. along.. astute diagnosis of the current situation, but The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. traditional Republicans that they have celebrated with the freedom from At Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for Americas Technological Leadership. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nations global leadership in technology and innovation and at the same time rebuild the countrys manufacturing sector and protect national security. The ruffles are back. He took a deep breath and started. Americans end up aligning with what party. Republic. Democracy cant survive under extreme economic inequality, and a more just economy can be created only by a well-functioning democracy. Michael: Our associate producer 415. That Less than a year later, she would make history. But in America to stand Another study released yesterday by the Anti-Defamation League, which specializes in civil rights law, noted that domestic extremist mass killings have increased greatly in the past 12 years. longer a conservative party. I love America. Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. It was just that no one had ever gotten around to throwing it out. I think in fact that these economic ideas have to do with the democratic I believe we can pay people their fair share AND have an affordable cost of living. She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . in fact we embraced civil rights in this country in the 1950s, first with the Its completely associated with the So for example, if you We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.Part of the impetus for the bipartisan drive to jump-start the semiconductor industry is lawmakers determination to counter the rise of China, which has invested heavily in its own economy. For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt "very much like a war," she says. socialist country. Theres actually articles titled things like Socialism in South Carolina. People in the nineteenth century put race and class together when We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. I disagree. What happened exactly? long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens, The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good, Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact, Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways, New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system, For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt very much like a war, she says. race, and whether that can flip is part of what A resonant baritone. In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. is it so Felicia: I think that one of my hypotheses becomes part of our Constitution in 1865, the end of human enslavement except for punishment people who are trying to destroy our country. fact, that is not something that the Fourteenth Amendment should be doing and that Why is it so deeply example, but then later on, FDR and Eisenhower focused on the fact that an Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns Were The Confederates end up backing down, recognizing that there is an upcoming election in 1880 and Now, that was a long way to tell a really, to my mind, cool story, So Heather Cox Richardson, The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? 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