SHIRA LURIE

Writing

JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Liberty Poles and the Fight for Popular Politics in the Early Republic

THE WASHINGTON POST

It’s dangerous when we allow the losers to rewrite history

American exceptionalism gives voters a false sense of security about the election

It's Republicans, not Democrats, threatening our constitutional order

The Constitution isn’t the cure for President Trump. It is the cause

Why the Democrats are wrong about Trump’s politicization of the Fourth of July (reprinted in the Salt Lake Tribune and the History News Network)

Why Donald Trump’s immigration play could backfire big time in 2020

Why the White House is Pushing a Doctored Video

TIME

Lessons from the 18th century’s Donald Trump

THE TORONTO STAR

U.S. Supreme Court crowns a king

Students at campus encampments in the past and today are on the right side of history

Biden plays dangerous game by not heeding public opinion for a ceasefire

Johnson’s speakership is bad for Democrats - but not for reasons you think

Conservatives must stop importing American outrage around pronouns and parental rights

Democracy is on the line in American midterms

We’re suffering from a pandemic of individualism - the flawed rhetoric of personal responsibility won’t solve our crisis

The Saturday Debate: Will the Democrats avoid a midterm massacre? - NO

Make Canada Day a national day of reckoning

Canada should aspire to more than simply beating the United States

The problem with Biden’s quixotic quest for American unity

Republicans have been sowing the seeds of yesterday’s coup attempt for decades

Why Canadians should be closely watching the U.S. election

‘Illegality’ of monument destruction is entirely the point

Hamilton’s uplifting narrative distorts America then and America today

National myths we tell ourselves are as racist and ignorant as Trudeau’s costumes

SALT WIRE

Nova Scotia once showed the world how to live with Covid - so what happened?

Staff shortages? Cancellations? Closures? It’s the Covid, stupid

Amid a health crisis, Houston has his head in the sand

We can fight the new Covid variant, if Houston will let us

Not the “Living with COVID” we were promised

THE CONVERSATION

Would Trump concede in 2020? A lesson from 1800 (reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press and the Prince George Citizen)

THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN

The Early Republic: What’s in an Era?

RABBLE