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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