Nicole Hemmer is an Associate Research Scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project at Columbia University and author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics (Penn Press, 2016).
International
Two Americas, one existential crisis
Nicole Hemmer
10 November 2020
Red America and Blue America have become much more than clichés
International
Restoring American democracy, one step at a time
Nicole Hemmer
5 November 2020
With a narrow Biden win looking increasingly likely, what are the prospects for progress on the issues that matter?
International
America’s electoral counter-revolution
Nicole Hemmer
19 October 2020
What the Republican Party is attacking is democracy itself
International
Violence’s cheerleader
Nicole Hemmer
1 October 2020
The debate gave us a clearer idea of what a second Trump term could look like
International
Chaos theory
Nicole Hemmer
31 August 2020
Donald Trump is mounting the only kind of campaign he knows — despite its failure in 2018
International
History’s choice
Nicole Hemmer
12 August 2020
Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris decisively shapes the Democratic Party of the future
International
Long march
Nicole Hemmer
1 June 2020
As a century’s experience shows, police violence won’t stop civil rights protesters from seeking justice
Books & arts
Lost in space
Nicole Hemmer
10 March 2020
A New York Times columnist’s provocative analysis of America’s ills
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