My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review
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The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit
38 min
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A Cast from 2011 - Obama, Egypt, More..
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47 min
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The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sec...
From 2011.
27 min
429
Game Time in Politics and The Court
38 min
430
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzge...
a bit from the now public Great Gatsby
7 min
431
Tucson Shooting and American Political Violence
A tragic event has Bruce thinking about political violence and history
18 min
432
A Little About Anarchism
and communism, and a few other things (from 2011)
2 min
433
Does the Challenger Even Matter?
The last days of Ford and Carter 76 illustrates how close an election can get when the President is not popular but not unpopular. When it's a sitting President - does the person the party picks even matter or is it all about the Incumbent?...
62 min
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Does a President Lose the Presidency When they ...
There appears to be a trend that when Presidents lose the House, the party loses the next Presidential Election.
14 min
435
Autopsy of a Midterm 2010
24 min
436
The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)
40 min
437
Clayton's Meetings and Other Thoughts
When is a meeting not a meeting? When it's a Clayton's Meeting
46 min
438
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midt...
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midterm Results
26 min
439
Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A
looking at the decision, its meaning, its interpretation.
30 min
440
Should A President Campaign in Midterms?
History Doesn't Look Kindly on it, and at least one advisor told a President to attack a country instead
18 min
441
Social Security, Civil War Pensions
While Social Security was developed in the 1930's, it's possible to say that there were always some mechanisms for older persons, though not universal ones.
36 min
442
Al Haig and Other Stories
21 min
443
How the Battle for California Statehood Define...
All About Statehood. What it means, how did Hawaii and Alaska get added, why aren't there more states?
43 min
444
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
26 min
445
Is Healthcare a "Second Third Rail" of American...
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28 min
446
How Primary Became a Verb
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25 min
447
Famous Brokered Conventions
from 2008
51 min
448
You Don't Take on Sitting Presidents Anymore, B...
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34 min
449
The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes
a bit about these subjects as a decade turns.
59 min
450
What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief ...
we look at former President Bush's memoir.
16 min