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Spencer Goidel

Spencer Goidel

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Trump’s comeback victory, after reshaping his party and national politics, looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828

As the nation prepares for a second Donald Trump presidency, some history-minded people may seek understanding in the idea that it wasn’t until...

06.11.2024 40

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Spencer Goidel

How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist , more-sexist  past

There’s a reason Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is working hard to evoke nostalgia: People who are nostalgic – meaning, people who...

17.07.2024 9

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Nixon declared Americans deserved to know ‘whether their president is a crook’ – Trump says the opposite

One of the four criminal trials of Donald Trump was slated to start in the next few days, but has been delayed on procedural grounds. There was a time...

20.03.2024 30

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I’m a political scientist, and the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling turned me into a reproductive-rights refugee

The day before the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos created and used for in vitro fertilization are children, my wife, Gabby, and I...

11.03.2024 10

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