Timothy L. Kelly

Oct 26, 2024 | ncronline.org | Timothy L. Kelly |Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman |Jayson Landeza

Who poses the greatest threat to the survival of American democracy today? Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman argue in White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy that the answer is clear: rural whites have moved the nation to the precipice of political collapse.

Aug 26, 2023 | ncronline.org | Ryan McQuade |Timothy L. Kelly |Timothy Egan

The Ku Klux Klan parades through the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sept. 21, 1923. (AP)  As the right-wing movements of intolerance gain greater and greater hold over the levers of American political and judicial power today, historians have begun to examine their roots in earlier periods of American history. Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland draws powerful and uncomfortable parallels between the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the rise of the MAGA movement in the past decade.