Rick Shenkman
@rickshenkman.bsky.social
Historian’s can’t predict the future. We can’t even agree on the past. Journalist & historian. Author of POLITICAL ANIMALS: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books).
Picture of ICE in action! Oh sorry. It’s a pic from the NYT of Hamas in the Gaza strip today.
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Picture of ICE in action! Oh sorry. It’s a pic from the NYT of Hamas in the Gaza strip today.
Dictators are now copying Trump
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Dictators are now copying Trump
The stated policy of the new German chancellor is to defend Europe from America.
February 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The stated policy of the new German chancellor is to defend Europe from America.
I’m shocked. Historians didn’t make the list?
November 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
I’m shocked. Historians didn’t make the list?
Remember all those news stories about how voters were feeling bad about the economy? And how Dems were supposed to take their feelings to heart because, well, this was voters' lived experience? Oops. Turns out it was just partisan politics.
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November 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Remember all those news stories about how voters were feeling bad about the economy? And how Dems were supposed to take their feelings to heart because, well, this was voters' lived experience? Oops. Turns out it was just partisan politics.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
www.axios.com/newsletters/...