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The Democratic Party Is Offering a False Choice Between Socialism and Technocracy

By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.

Reason · Nov 23, 2025

Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100

In 1925, a Tennessee battle over teaching evolution in schools gripped the US and, as festivities commemorate the chaos, the case remains grimly relevant

The Guardian - US · Jul 10, 2025

With a massive ark and museum, he spreads creationism a century after Scopes trial. He’s not alone

The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism

The Independent UK · May 20, 2025

A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 election

More than five months after President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, Democrats are still trying to understand why they lost the election and the Senate majority – and how the party can regroup.

The Conversation · Apr 22, 2025

How an anti-evolution law a century ago set up an infamous showdown over religion in public schools

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

Warning of ‘oligarchy,’ Biden channels Andrew Jackson

In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection. President Joe Biden’s, delivered five days before he left office, began that way, with a celebration of America’s promise and of its progress under his tenure.

The Conversation · Jan 22, 2025

Not like '68: DNC is back in Chicago

Chicago has been home to Democratic conventions both triumphant and disastrous

Salon · Aug 18, 2024

How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

The Conversation · Jul 15, 2024

The stakes have never been higher

Forget New Hampshire and look at what the country would look like under a second Biden or Trump administration

Salon · Jan 25, 2024