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January 9, 2021
When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done. He never took electoral...
January 9, 2021
One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a new Lost Cause invaded the U.S. Capitol with the incitement of the president of the...
January 9, 2021
Was it an insurrection? A coup? Should we call it domestic terrorism? Or just a peaceful protest gone awry? As a battle of politics becomes a battle for words to describe...
January 8, 2021
The path from the Nov. 3 election has been harrowing for American democracy. Though state and local officials ran clean, well-functioning elections, leaving no doubt that Joe...
December 15, 2020
The history department hosts a series of professional development workshops designed to help Yale students professionalize themselves by offering deep dives into subjects not...
December 14, 2020
Ideas of India is a new podcast in which Mercatus Senior Research Fellow Shruti Rajagopalan. In this episode, Shruti sat down with Rohit De to discuss his 2018 book, A People...
December 8, 2020
For most of American history, the transition from president to president-elect has been smooth. The loser accepts his fate, publicly concedes and the winner prepares to take...