Engines of Outrage Pt. 4
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
How does the internet work to polarize us on an individual level?As tech and media companies, battle...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 3
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Librarians in Ukraine. Rural newspapers. A tweak to social media algorithms. The infrastructure of a...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 2
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
In the early 2000s, key tech companies made a series of choices that shaped the future of the intern...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 1
Thu, 06 Feb 2025
Just a few decades ago most people used — and trusted — the same news sources. Now, Americans ar...
The Exoneration of Richard Nixon
Wed, 03 Jul 2024
If the new Supreme Court decision, Trump v. U.S., had applied back in 1974, could President Richard ...
When Money Became Speech
Thu, 02 May 2024
After Watergate, both parties cracked down on political spending with a new, strict campaign finance...
New Right TV
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
Before Fox News, the grassroots conservative activists known as "the New Right" spent decades attemp...
Making Abortion Partisan
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
Even in the years after Roe vs. Wade, the issue of abortion did not divide the political parties —...
Landslide
Thu, 04 Apr 2024
Four years later. Jimmy Carter is now an embattled president, unpopular and facing a tough primary c...
Outsider
Thu, 28 Mar 2024
Bruised after the primaries, the unpopular Ford looks headed for a blowout defeat in the 1976 genera...
Ordinary Man
Thu, 21 Mar 2024
An unexpected contender ambushes the Democratic field. The one-term Georgia governor Jimmy Carter ha...
Shootout
Thu, 14 Mar 2024
With the primaries over, the nomination hangs in the hands of a few remaining "unbound" delegates. F...
The New Right
Thu, 07 Mar 2024
The 1976 Republican primary looks finished. After a string of losses to Ford, Reagan's aides prepare...
Lightweight
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
The idea that Ronald Reagan can win is laughable. "Suicidal," writes the New York Times. Too extreme...
Trust
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
Gerald Ford had planned to retire. But in the days and weeks after Watergate, the new president look...
Introducing Landslide
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
When President Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace, three unlikely candidates emerge to fill the vacuu...