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Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson is the author of “To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party,” amongst several other books, and a professor of history at Boston College.

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The Republican tax bill is a poison pill that kills the New Deal

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Donald Trump’s deadly strategy: His attack on government has led to riots before, and could again

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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders (AP/Reuters/John Minchillo/Chuck Burton/Steve Marcus)

This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves

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Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, George W. Bush, Donald Trump (AP/Reuters)

This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump

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Donald Trump, David Brooks (AP/John Locher/Nam Y. Huh/Photo montage by Salon)

David Brooks has lost all control: This is how the far right stole the GOP — and they are not giving it back

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Ronald Reagan; Ed Rollins, Lee Atwater, Lyn Nofziger (AP/Lana Harris/Ed Kolenovsky/Photo montage by Salon)

Ronald Reagan made it all worse: How Republicans — the real party with their hands out — convinced white America that government was out to get them

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Extremism ends in civil war: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and a right-wing insurgency the GOP can no longer control

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GOP’s hell-bent on tearing us apart: A decades-long strategy to win by divisiveness now leads to President Donald Trump

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George Will’s had enough lying: His battle with Bill O’Reilly is finally an intellectual battle to reclaim the GOP from Fox News

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GOP hates the media because they are liars: The damning, evil history of the right’s war on a free press

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Ted Cruz wants to be king: Make no mistake, the GOP extremists’ real goal is absolute control

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John Boehner, Ted Cruz (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them

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Donald Trump is brilliant revenge: The GOP’s demise looks a lot like this

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It didn’t start with Limbaugh and Trump: The deep roots of the GOP’s war on women

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It’s still Richard Nixon’s party: How Watergate shaped the modern conservative movement

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This is how the clowns took over: The sad history leading to the spectacle of a Fox News debate starring front-runner Donald Trump

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How did this monster get created? The decades of GOP lies that brought us Donald Trump, Republican front-runner

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Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., removes the Confederate battle flag at a Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. She was taken into custody when she came down. The flag was raised again by capitol workers about 45 minutes later. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

White Southern hate, stripped bare for all to see

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Abraham Lincoln, Rand Paul, Lee Atwater (AP/Alex Brandon)

GOP’s fear of a black America: The long, racist history which explains Dylann Roof and stains the so-called “party of Lincoln”

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Scott Walker (AP/Gerald Herbert)

They really are the party of stupid: The real story behind Scott Walker’s war on higher education

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They’re all still lying about Iraq: The real story about the biggest blunder in American history — and the right wing’s obsessive need to cover it up

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This is how the right wing dies: The GOP has rigged the game for the rich, again

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Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker (AP/John Minchillo/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

Bobby Jindal just splintered the GOP: The unholy alliance between Fox News and the 1 percent can no longer stand

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Abraham Lincoln would despise you all: Race, the South and the GOP’s most delusional fantasy

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