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Tag: Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy

Robert C. Donnelly, Gonzaga University Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican incumbent Gerald Ford...

Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico –...

Aileen Teague, Brown University Just a week ago, President Donald Trump appeared poised to take the drastic step of closing the U.S.-Mexico border to both...

George H.W. Bush laid the foundation for education reform

Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts Lowell George H.W. Bush fulfilled his desire – articulated late in his 1988 campaign for president – to be “the...

What exactly is the point of the border?

Michael Blake, University of Washington The past few weeks have seen widespread outrage over the Trump administration’s now-defunct policy of separating migrant families at the...

How Christian media is shaping American politics

Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University For Americans growing up between the 1950s and the 1980s, religion was not a regular presence on television....

Red state, blue state: How colors took sides in politics

David Scott Kastan, Yale University When Americans hear some pundits projecting a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterm elections, they understand that this is a...

When image trumps ideology: How JFK created the template for the...

Steven Watts, University of Missouri-Columbia Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still...

The “Rogue Cartoonist” Ben Garrison on What it’s Like to be...

"“Hillary Clinton is the very face of corruption and criminality. It's imperative that she not be rewarded again with the White House for her astonishing amount of egregious misdeeds and criminal acts. She's incompetent. She's an accomplished liar. She's smugly callous. I will con-tinue to expose her all I can.”

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