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A November to Remember: Hope that the American Experiment Will Survive

After a month of electoral losses and political missteps, Donald Trump is limping into the holiday season.

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Dec 12, 2025
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Last month gave us realistic hope that the American Experiment will survive the gravest threat it has faced since what is usually termed the Civil War — but would more accurately be named the Enslavers’ Rebellion.

In retrospect, the opening days of July 1863 are seen as the point at which the tide turned in that worst war in A…

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Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”
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