As experts begin to rank Trump's presidency, I unearth the strange history of presidential rankings for the WaPo"s Made By History. With thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for expert editing.
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Bruce Schulman
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Huntington Professor of History at Boston University
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Add States? Double the Court? Expand the House? My Latest for the WAPO's "Made By History" on the historical case for Constitutional Hardball. With thx for expert editing by @KathrynBrownell and @car1ygoodman
"In the end, doubling the Supreme Court, adding multiple states and enlarging the House might not advantage the Democratic Party, but they would advance the cause of American democracy." — @bjschulmView quoted post on X
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Congrats to my friend, colleague, and @HistoryBU grad @SethBlumenthal --winner of BU's Metcalf Award for outstanding teaching. Well deserved! bu.edu/articles/2020/…
Today's not the first time a NY Governor complained about an unfair federal balance of payments. This piece ran in 2017, during the debate over Trump's tax law, but it tries to shed some historical light on this longstanding struggle. washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…
www.washingtonpost.com Perspective | Blue states already subsidize red states. Now red states want even more. What the state and local tax deduction fight is really about. As the 2020 campaign heats up (finally) with Iowa and NH, I look back at how the tangled US presidential system took shape. My latest for the WaPo's Made By History feature
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www.washingtonpost.com Perspective | A century of reforms made Iowa and New Hampshire presidential kingmakers But did they backfire?