Clinton (Hillary) Archives

Podcast

Heather Cox Richardson Believes in You

A conversation about Richardson’s book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Substack, and the importance of popular history

November 29, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A Why Now? episode on Heather Cox Richardson's book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America...

Interviews

Documenting the City of Refugees

An interview with Susan Hartman on her new book about Utica’s transformation by refugees

October 4, 2022 • by Susan Hartman and Marisa Budlong

I wanted to put in perspective what these refugees had gone through, what the countries they left had gone through, what the refugee camp experience was like. So, there is this part where I talk about when they were each on the run: it is very traumatic material and this ...

Sex & Gender

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Never forget that banning abortion has always been a minority position in this country, one that does not represent the will of the voters.

May 3, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Outlawing abortion is the outcome of a radical conservative minority. The success of this minority has been entirely driven by megadonors and organizations that create voter turnout through disinformation and motivating extremists. The notion that a cluster of cells that cannot survive outside a human host, one that has no ...

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Politics

How Can MAGA Nation Believe the Unbelievable?

When facts fail to explain the present, belief and faith take over

March 14, 2022 • by Peter Nohrnberg

How have Republican office holders ignored a crucial contradiction of fact: that they ran, and won, on the same 2020 ballot, including in states where Biden was declared the winner?...

How Can MAGA Nation Believe the Unbelievable?

North America

The Future of the GOP

Has the Republic National Committee firmly dragged the Republican Party into Trump’s war on our democracy?

February 8, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Coming as the statement did, just after former President Trump said that Pence had the power to “overturn the election” and, that if reelected, Trump would pardon those who attacked the Capitol, it has put the Republican Party openly on the side of overturning our democracy....

Feature

Gray is Beautiful Revisited

On the Politics of Sex and the Crisis of Democracy at Home and Abroad

December 23, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This week I am returning to my appreciation of the color gray, a theme I promised to explore regularly here, which unfortunately I have only returned to occasionally, and not recently. I am returning to the theme on this the darkest of days -- I started writing this during the winter solstice ...

Feature

Maximizing Risk and Uncertainty in a Changing World

Notes on Volatility in Cultures of Finance

November 25, 2016 • by Ben Lee

One of the most remarkable contemporary developments has been the rise of what might be called a “politics of volatility” in which volatility is deliberately produced to take advantage of the uncertainty it creates. Its current embodiment is Donald Trump. Like the efficient market that he embraces, in the primaries, ...

Maximizing Risk and Uncertainty in a Changing World

Moral Equivalence and the Heart of Politics

November 2, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

We are all very tired. I think I can say this with confidence. Tired, that is, of this damn election. When one is tired – nerves frayed, eyeballs heavy – it is understandable when one snarls and snaps at any provocation, real or imagined. While it’s understandable it’s not commendable. Intensity ...

Moral Equivalence and the Heart of Politics

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The Promise and Perils of a Clinton Victory and a Trump Defeat

President Hillary Clinton + The Politics of Small Things = Progress?

October 18, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The second Clinton - Trump “debate” was a dismal affair, a low point in the history of the American Republic. Donald Trump demonstrated with great clarity why it is imperative that he not become the next president of the United States. He treated the event as a reality show, with ...

The Promise and Perils of a Clinton Victory and a Trump Defeat

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Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit

October 15, 2016 • by Lisa Aslanian

It has taken me a few days to figure out why Hillary Rodham Clinton makes me a little giddy. I have always enjoyed watching her run for office. She is the smart girl who does her homework. She aims to get the job by earning it. She is tireless and ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

The King of Campaign Kettle Logic: Trump on the Stump and in the Gutter

October 5, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

With the New York Times reporting on Donald Trump’s leaked 1995 joint tax return with his then-wife Marla Maples Trump, we get to see how Trump persistently uses “kettle logic” on the campaign trail to avoid ever having to say he is wrong, sorry, or in the least bit ashamed ...

The King of Campaign Kettle Logic: Trump on the Stump and in the Gutter

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The Myths of the Clash between Clinton and Trump

September 29, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

On 26 September 2016, I watched the first presidential debate of my life. I am not an American citizen. I do not have the right to vote. I moved to New York only a few years ago. I have not had enough time to become accustomed to American political culture, ...