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Andrew Burstein

Andrew Burstein is the Charles P. Manship Professor of History at Louisiana State University and coauthor with Nancy Isenberg of Madison and Jefferson.  His latest book is Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead.

George Washington; Andrew Johnson; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

Donald Trump’s unpardonable endgame: Does the president have unlimited power to pardon anyone?

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Oprah Winfrey; Donald Trump (AP/Getty)

Celebrity monomania: Maybe Trump and Oprah aren’t as different as we think

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Dwight D. Eisenhower; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Eisenhower, Trump and hubris: We’ve had misguided presidents, but not like this

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Thomas Jefferson; Donald Trump; Teddy Roosevelt (AP/Evan Vucci/Getty/AlexLMX/ peterspiro)

How will history view the Trump era? With contempt and amazement, for starters

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Donald Trump; Reinhold Niebuhr (Getty/Olivier Douliery/Wikimedia)

A vote for moral technology: Updating Reinhold Niebuhr to the age of Donald Trump

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Mike Lee (AP/Molly Riley/Penguin Random House)

Mike Lee’s bad history: Utah senator’s book is an ignorant hodgepodge concocted to justify the modern GOP

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John Adams; Thomas Jefferson (Wikicommons)

Listening to John Adams: The true conception of liberty is far larger than mean-spirited conservative ideology

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Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson; Sitting Bull (AP/John Locher/Wikicommons)

American history: Fake news that never goes away — and empowered the Trumpian insurrection

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John Adams; Donald Trump; Paris Hilton (Wikimedia/Getty/Mandel Ngan/Michael Dodge)

Can we redeem “civic virtue” in the age of Donald Trump? John Adams might have understood what just happened

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (AP/Matt Rourke/Reuters/Carlos Barria/Photo montage by Salon)

The godfather vs. the grandmother: How the 2016 election became a battle of “character” over substance

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Russell Cheyne)

“Greater Than We Currently Are,” not “Great Again”: Trump is perversely nostalgic when we should be looking forward

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Bill Maher, Donald Trump, Jon Stewart (AP/Janet Van Ham/Charlie Neibergall/Charles Sykes)

We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully

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Elizabeth Warren (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

Elizabeth Warren’s big win: The new, much-needed rule that could rein in Wall Street slime

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Stop clinging to the Founding Fathers: The Andrew Jackson/Hamilton/Tubman debate is really about honest history

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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump (AP/Mary Altaffer/Gene J. Puskar/Photo montage by Salon)

Republicans really fall for this nonsense: The GOP is the party of stupid, but its voters are the deluded ones

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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz (Reuters/Brian Snyder/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Photo montage by Salon)

Their brand is demagogic rage: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and our sad new politics of anger and performance

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Ted Cruz, Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump, George Washington (AP/Richard Drew/J. Scott Applewhite/Wikimedia/Salon)

Religion, patriotism, partisanship: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Presidents’ Day history lesson

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Sen. Ted Cruz(AP Photo/) (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is

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(Wikimedia/Reuters/Nati Harnik/photo montage by Salon)

We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers

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donald trump (AP/Wade Payne)

This is the bluster of a phony: Donald Trump represents rage and rudeness, not populism

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(AP/Reuters/J. Scott Applewhite/Brian Snyder/Jason Reed/Photo montage by Salon)

Freedom fries and chicken hawks: The American history mosque-closers and chest-thumpers must learn

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Woodrow Wilson is not the Confederate flag: Scrubbing his name from Princeton is a bad idea

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(AP/Reuters/Alonzo Adams/Brendan McDermid/Jose Luis Magana/Mel Evans)

This is what a demagogue sounds like: The patriotic appeal which can’t be trusted

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(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Donald Trump is our creepy new face of demagoguery

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