Historian says Trump is not “toast,” will be the nominee
Retired professor John Hennen isn’t ready to jump on the Trump-is-toast bandwagon. The historian doubts MAGA base voters, nearly all of them white, are ready to forsake their Great White Hope.
Berry Craig
Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
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The Democrats of the past and the Republicans of the present
Most insider-written institutional histories tend to be more hagiography than history. Kenny Fogle’s History of the Kentucky Democratic Party isn’t.
Pearl Harbor and The Beast
“All the people not expecting it. Not knowing what to do. Not knowing where to go.”
Guess who canceled out the over-65 vote? The youth vote.
This election wasn’t a red wave or a blue wave. It was a youth wave.
Pompeo the pathetic pander bear
Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? According to Mike Pompeo, it’s not Xi or Kim or Putin; it is the leader of a teacher’s union.
A historian describes the REAL first Thanksgiving
On this Thanksgiving Day 2022, Berry Craig lays out for us what that first Thanksgiving was REALLY like.
Wieder was ‘quietly confident’ Amendment 2 would fail
Kentucky is among the reddest of Republican red states. But Tammara Wieder was quietly confident that Kentuckians would vote down GOP-backed constitutional amendments to ban abortion and to empower the legislature to call itself into special session.
A poli-sci professor weighs in on the midterms and Trump running again
Dr. James Clinger of Murray State University gives his analysis of the midterm results, and looks at Trump running again.
Union voted in at C-J, welcomed by state AFL-CIO
Journalists at the Courier-Journal in Louisville voted on Friday to affiliate with the NewsGuild union, a member union of the Communications Workers of America.
An election potpourri – including a serving of crow
I couldn’t be happier that I was wrong about the midterm elections. But we’re not out of the woods yet.
The Booker campaign: a reflection from an historian
Berry Craig reflects on the Booker campaign, and compares it to political movements and moments from the past
Too much trivial horse-race coverage of the midterms
This is NOT just another election – even though the media, including MSNBC, want to cover it that way.
Three election stories you should read
Berry Craig is one of our most prolific, and most popular, contributors here at Forward Kentucky. And for this year’s midterms, he has put together a threesome of election stories that are definitely worth your time.
Vote as if it’s your last chance to have your voice heard. Because it may well be.
We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped.
A true tale of two ties and more
Think your vote doesn’t matter? Gather ’round, dear readers, and hear a true tale of three elections: Two ties and a single vote win – out of 12,637 ballots cast.
The spitting and biting Lyons
It’s a pretty safe bet that between now and Tuesday, First District U.S. Rep. James Comer won’t bite one constituent’s thumb off, or duke it out with another. That’s ditto for Comer’s challenger, Jimmy Ausbrooks. Even so, there would be precedent.
