Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
876 episodes transcribedSeptember 23, 2026When Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he fired the investigators in the anti-corruption group of the FBI who were investig...
September 21, 2026On September 18th, Trump announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, Trump invoked “national security,”...
September 19, 2026350 years ago, on September 19, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown - the capital of the Virginia Colony, Virgi...
September 18, 2026Diesel has hit its highest recorded average price, An advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader said Iran would not reopen the Strait of Horm...
September 17, 2026In 1776, Benjamin Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence and in 1787, he urged his colleagues at the Constitutional C...
September 16, 2026A US District Judge refused to perist the Kennedy Center board to return Trump’s name to the building’s facade, The board promptly a...
September 15, 2026Seven years ago, I wrote a Facebook post that was the start of Letters from an American, I wrote about how things at the White House...
September 14, 2026News broke about a Russian oligarch spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, The inspector general o...
September 13, 2026Dario Amodel, the CEO of Anthropic expressed concern that AI models are advancing faster than engineers can understand them, He warn...
September 12, 2026Judge J. Michael Luttig published a warning about how Republicans could refuse to seat elected Democrats after the midterm elections...
Yesterday, Trump’s midterm convention had its second night, The audience was sparse, but Trump got the loyalty he demanded from the crowd that showed...
September 10, 2026Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of an area near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, With the Strait of Hormuz largely...
September 9, 2026At a White House event marking the anniversary of 9/11, Trump told a story about being at the site of the World Trade Center that day...
September 7, 2026Trump has been posting on social media at a frantic pace, He is posting AI images of himself as a superhero, as various historic figu...
September 5, 2026The Trump administration had a busy Friday, US District Judge Talwani blocked Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional plan to use the US...
September 3, 2026Election analyst Charlie Cook is warning Republicans to brace themselves for the midterms, The Trump administration is trying to impl...
