Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian and author Rick Perlstein is a prolific writer and one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern conservative ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Political historian Rick Perlstein delivered a damning summary of Project 2025, writing in a lengthy analysis published Wednesday ...

In 1977, Jimmy Carter entered the White House with as much public goodwill as any president in modern times on the promise of restoring decency through political restraint and shared sacrifice. Sound ...

Rick Perlstein. Photo by Meg Handler. Fast forward three years and But her emails! (a reference to overblown coverage, in 2016, of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server) is back in the ...

Historian Rick Perlstein has traced the rise of modern American conservatism across four weighty tomes. His latest release picks up in the late ’70s, when Ronald Reagan launched a bid for the ...

Rick Perlstein’s latest, “Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980,” is the fourth and final volume in the writer’s acclaimed history of the rise of conservatism in America, an endeavor he worked on ...