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Harry Truman

  1. past is prologue
    Can Joe Biden Pull Off a Harry Truman?High inflation, third-party candidates, an unpopular incumbent: The 1948 election has some lessons for 2024.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. past is prologue
    President Of Israel Delivers Address To Joint Session Of Congress
    2024 Republicans Try an Old Trick: Running Against Kamala HarrisThe GOP is raising alarms about Joe Biden’s health while attacking “President Harris.” It didn’t work against FDR and Harry Truman in 1944.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. myths
    The Truman ShowHow the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.
    By Paul Campos
  4. vision 2020
    Can Trump Pull Off an Upset Like Harry Truman’s in 1948?The more you look at Truman’s shocker, the less it looks like anything Trump can duplicate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. donald trump
    Trump Reaches for Gravitas in His First Prime-Time Oval Office SpeechPerhaps the venue, which Americans associate with big, consequential issues, can help convince a skeptical public that Trump needs his border wall.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Need a Democratic Platform? How About Harry Truman’s From 1948?Democrats 70 years ago made a lot of promises that are still, and even especially, relevant today
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. Bibi and the Christian Right Agree: Trump Is the New Cyrus the GreatNetanyahu gives his friend the president the great favor of reinforcing conservative Evangelical belief that Trump’s the supreme virtuous pagan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Billy Graham Lived at the Crossroads of Faith and PowerAfter getting too close to Richard Nixon, Billy Graham stayed away from partisan politics. But his son Franklin Graham is up to his ears in it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Trump’s Approval Ratings: How Low Can They Go?The answer could swing the midterm election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    Looking to Harry Truman to Understand Hillary ClintonWhat if Hillary governs like Harry?
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. You Know Who Else Wanted to Abolish the CIA?Bernie Sanders’s 40-year-old call to abolish the CIA isn’t as radical as his opponents seem to believe. 
    By Eric Levitz
  12. Everyone Is Butchering ‘the Buck Stops Here’Harry Truman’s famous saying didn’t mean that the president is responsible for everything that happens.
    By Dan Amira