Joshua Zeitz
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Hoboken, NJ, United States
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Past articles by Joshua:
How Can Biden Help Ukraine? Ask FDR.
When another ally in Europe faced invasion, the president got creative. → Read More
How to Undo the Supreme Court’s Mistakes
The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome. → Read More
Joe Biden’s Kabul Is Not Gerald Ford’s Saigon
In the 70s, Americans saw Ford as a president who had lost control of the levers—abroad and at home. That’s not the case for Biden yet. → Read More
Another Time a President Used the “Emergency” Excuse to Restrict Immigration
It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades. → Read More
Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.
Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not. → Read More
Why Conservatives Should Beware a Roe v. Wade Repeal
Opposition to the famous court case empowered the Christian right. If the ruling is struck down, this time abortion rights activists will come out on top. → Read More
Never Trumpers Will Want to Read This History Lesson
In the 1850s, disaffected Democrats made the wrenching choice to leave their party to save American democracy. Here’s what happened. → Read More
Never Trumpers Will Want to Read This History Lesson
In the 1850s, disaffected Democrats made the wrenching choice to leave their party to save American democracy. Here’s what happened. → Read More
America’s Had Military Parades Before. Here’s Why Trump’s Will Be Different.
Trump’s military parade is just one more example of how far we’ve traveled from longstanding traditions. → Read More
What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society
It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked. → Read More
What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society
It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked. → Read More
Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?
Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics. → Read More
Why the 25th Amendment Doesn’t Apply to Trump—No Matter What He Tweets
Its framers might have agreed that it could be remove a president who suffered mental illness. But not a president who already demonstrated those traits when the people, in their wisdom, elected him to office. → Read More
How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism
This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world. → Read More
How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism
This year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world. → Read More
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?
Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system. → Read More
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?
Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system. → Read More
What the New LBJ Movie Gets Right—and Wrong
With its smart focus on Johnson’s unhappy tenure as vice president and the earliest days of his presidency, the film is at once a taut political drama and valuable history lesson. → Read More
The Original Corker-Trump Feud
Fifty years ago, LBJ was locked in a fight with another chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Here’s what happened. → Read More
Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong
When Abraham Lincoln was running for reelection in 1864, a typical Democratic Party newspaper warned that should Lincoln earn a second term in office, his administration would bring about the “blending of the white and the black”—an epidemic of black men and “snow-white bosomed” women falling into sexual liaisons—a profusion of “squint-eyed yellow babies” born to “every Abolition woman …… → Read More