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Jon Meacham

Meacham is the author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

America's Crises Would Be Daunting for Any President-Elect. But History Can Teach Biden to Navigate Them

Division is, in fact, more the rule than the exception in American life, wr...
Division is, in fact, more the rule than the exception in American life, writes @jmeacham

The Impeachment Inquiry Is About More Than Donald Trump — It’s About Who We Are as Americans

The possible impeachment of Donald Trump is about more than one man. It is ...
The possible impeachment of Donald Trump is about more than one man. It is a singular moment in American democracy that will try our capacity for reason over passion, fact over faith and principle over tribe

Country Music Should Be Political. After All, It Always Has Been

The distinctive American music has always reflected the complicated lives o...
The distinctive American music has always reflected the complicated lives of the people who make it

Mueller Offers a Lesson in the Power of Reason Over Passion

Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, the journali...
Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, the journalist Walter Lippmann, then 32 years old, published an influential and disturbing critique of democracy and its future. The mood in the...

George H.W. Bush Believed in the Essential Goodness of Americans

It was Bush who quietly but unmistakably laid the foundations for the 21st ...
It was Bush who quietly but unmistakably laid the foundations for the 21st century

A Leader Should Appeal to Their People’s Best Instincts. Donald Trump Appeals to the Worst

George Washington understood the stakes. "As the first of everything," Wash...
George Washington understood the stakes. "As the first of everything," Washington wrote, whatever he did, substantially as well as stylistically, would "serve to establish a precedent." In 1790, the first full year of Washington's presidency,...

What President Trump Reveals in His Allusions to Nixon and McCarthy

The Evening ended badly. on Dec. 13, 1950, the Washington columnist Drew Pe...
The Evening ended badly. on Dec. 13, 1950, the Washington columnist Drew Pearson was being feted at a birthday dinner at the Sulgrave Club near Dupont Circle. A vocal opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Pearson...

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