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Past Present Podcast: Paid Protestors, Secondhand Smoke, and Ivanka Trump

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the history of “paid protestors,” the science of secondhand smoke, and the failing fortunes of Ivanka Trump’s clothing line.

Nicole Hemmer

What America’s Most Remarkable Presidents Had In Common

can recall the exact date that I saw my most memorable president: October 5, 1960. My mother had loaded me and my two older brothers into our ’56 Chevy for a short ride into downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Arriving early for a political rally, she placed us directly in front of the podium for a campaign speech by Senator John F. Kennedy.

Barbara Perry

CPAC’s Identity Crisis

It’s not hard to see why conservatives might object to Yiannopoulos. Emerging from the alt-right swamps of GamerGate and Breitbart (he calls himself a “fellow-traveller” of the alt-right, a white nationalist, misogynist movement), Yiannopoulos’s reputation hangs on his willingness to make all sorts of anti-woman, anti-Semitic, anti-gay (even though he is gay himself), anti-Islam, anti-everyone comments.

Nicole Hemmer

The Presidency

The spike in Ike

Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of historians ranks him as the fifth-best president in our nation’s history.

William Hitchcock

Miller Center

McCain defends free press, raises specter of dictatorship from Trump's attacks

Nicole Renee Hemmer, assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, said "the rhetoric is not yet cause for panic." But she said journalists need to push back and explain that "their work is a vital component of democratic governance and the system of checks and balances, especially given Donald Trump's autocratic tendencies."

Nicole Hemmer

Trump, the media and the intelligence community

U.S. President Donald Trump has never been very fond of parts of the media but now that he's president, does it matter that he tweets things like this: “The Fake News Media – failing NYT, NBC, ABC [the US ABC], CBS, CNN – is not my enemy; it is the enemy of the American people”?

Nicole Hemmer