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How Fox News and President Trump create an anti-Mueller 'feedback loop'

"The anti-Mueller rhetoric in conservative media right now is part of a feedback loop," the Miller Center's Nicole Hemmer, the author of a book about conservative media, "Messengers of the Right," told CNNMoney.

Nicole Hemmer

You know your history? These podcasts aren't so sure

In “BackStory,” which joined Panoply’s podcast network this year, historians draw connections between current events and the past, throwing out “the history you had to learn” in favor of “the history you want to learn.”

Brian Balogh

What's cooking? A history of food in America

It’s the holidays—that time of year when food is everywhere. So, Brian, Joanne, and Nathan sit down to discuss some of America’s many homegrown culinary traditions and what the food we eat says about American identity.

Brian Balogh

Legal Specialists Defend GSA's Handover of Transition Emails to Mueller Probe

Chris Lu, the former deputy Labor secretary who was executive director of the Obama-Biden transition, told Government Executive, “During the 2008-09 transition, we approached our use of email as if we were working in the federal government, so we had no expectation of privacy. The Trump transition's complaints are nothing more than an effort to undermine the special counsel's investigation.”

Chris Lu

rump lawyer's claims FBI illegally obtained transition emails 'are just whining', say ex-Obama officials

Chris Lu, who led the 2008 transition, added: “There is no expectation of privacy in transition emails: 1) they have a .gov address; 2) they were created with govt-supplied equipment; and 3) they sat on govt servers. This is just whining from Trump team.”

Chris Lu

Historians on the tax fight: “This was manufactured urgency”

The income tax was expanded to the masses during World War II, and the government sold it, in part, by giving taxpayers a “very clear sense of what they were funding,” said University of Virginia history professor Brian Balogh.

Brian Balogh