My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Back and forth on the significance of small money in politics. Plus – Can Bush pick Rubio? How did James Earl Carter, or JEC as we like to call him…go from peanut farmer to President.

A bit on age and the Presidency from a 2013 cast we did, that seems relevant today. Also a little bit about what might have happened in FDR declined to run in 1940.

a look at China policy from a President not often thought about in that context, a look at America’s imperialism and progressiveness, and immigration and the 14th.

Everything about Vice Presidents running for President, why the office was almost eliminated after an election, a little about me, more about Nixon and Kissinger and a What If about the 1976 election.

50 years ago, Medicare was created and some of it was recorded.  We’ll look at the original conversations that demonstrate LBJ’s work on the bill, and compare the enactment of Medicare to the Affordable Care Act.   And we’ll contrast the two bill’s passages and implementation, effect and popularity. Based on a previous cast called… Read More →

Nixon goes to China.  

Plenty of talk about NC and Munich these days… A look at Neville Chamberlain   and the impact of the Munich Conference on American politics.  Part One of Three.  The other two are later in the archive thread.   But I think for this situation part i is enough.  I will have a new cast out […]

Alexander Hamilton and the 10-dollar bill, as well as TV dinners and vice presidents.

A bit about Cotton Mather and the unknown man who saved Bostonians from smallpox . Also, the Year of 13 Candidates.  A Supreme Court plaintiff that wanted to lose.  And more, in this hodge-podcast.

At the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, both Democrats and Republicans had large open fields and a good number of candidates stepped in.  The Democratic field did not have an incumbent or former President or Vice President either  How did they sort out the choice?   In this slightly revised 2011 cast, we look at […]

The 1980 GOP primary, a year with a large field of candidates – larger than remembered – makes up Your Tasty Entree in this delicious podcast of TV history and politics.  Also the series finale of Mad Men and how it links to historical discussion.  Call this Your Starch Dish.  For Your Veggies, a discussion of the […]

but it’s good politics, apparently.   In the UK, the Conservatives earn a majority at least partially because of the destruction of their former government partner.   A bit about the result in the UK election and the cautionary tale for third party – first party coalitions.   Plus, the silence that speaks volumes about how […]

(from 2011)  A look at the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran in 1980, and some commentary on the evolution of special forces over time.

A bit about Dwight Eisenhower, and his true views on Earl Warren, the Brown decision and civil rights progress generally.

The United Kingdom is about to have its second election in a row where the outcome is not likely to be a majority by any one party.  What will happen?.  We take a look at this, and compare and contrast UK and US politics as well as  coalition versus two-party politics.