Democracy Awakening

Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson — author of How the South Won the Civil War — argues that Donald Trump and his followers pose an existental threat to American democracy.

Schism

Today’s political schism in the United States dates to the 1930s. Republicans had controlled Congress in the 1920s, and their pro-business policies resulted in mass misery during the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs expanded public safety, established worker protections, and raised taxes on the rich.