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Nicole Hemmer

Nashville

Contributing Writer at The New York Times

Articles

  • 1 week ago | democracyjournal.org | Nicole Hemmer

    In 1971, a few weeks after The New York Times wrapped its explosive series on the Pentagon Papers, the conservative magazine National Review ran a scoop of its own: another set of secret papers, this time showing that victory had been possible in Vietnam if only the U.S. government and military had taken a more aggressive approach.

  • 2 months ago | publicseminar.org | T. Alexander Aleinikoff |Hiroshi Motomura |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Nicole Hemmer

    Join hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez for a conversation with guest Stephen I. Vladeck about the Mahmoud Khalil Case, deportation power, and the Constitution.

  • Mar 13, 2025 | kuow.org | Alissa Escarce |Nicole Hemmer

    These days, we're used to media that thrives on conflict and amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. We can trace this style back to the shock jocks of the 1980s, like Howard Stern, or to in-your-face conservative talk show hosts, like Rush Limbaugh. But the real founding father of angry, sensational media was a 1960s talk show host named Joe Pyne, according to several people who knew Pyne and have studied his work.

  • Feb 28, 2025 | nytimes.com | Frank Bruni |Nicole Hemmer |Tim Miller

    Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Nicole Hemmer, a history professor at Vanderbilt and the author of " Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s," and Tim Miller, the author of " Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell," to discuss President Trump's stunt politics and how Republicans leverage emotionally charged issues over a long horizon.

  • Dec 23, 2024 | msnbc.com | Nicole Hemmer

    Dec. 23, 2024, 11:00 AM UTCWhat a bipartisan group of legislators hammered out over months, Elon Musk destroyed with a tweet. Or rather, with dozens of posts on his social media site X, sent at a furious pace over the course of 12 hours last week. In post after post, Musk hammered at the budget deal with a flurry of false claims and threats of electoral retribution against any Republican who dared support the legislation brokered to prevent a government shutdown. And it worked.