Claire Bond Potter

Claire Bond Potter is the Editorial Board's politics historian. A professor of historical studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City, she is the co-executive editor of Public Seminar and the publisher of Political Junkie. Follow her @TenuredRadical.
Saving democracy is a slow, deliberative process – and President Joe Biden is very, very good at it, writes Claire Bond Potter.
Let’s thank Stormy Daniels for her service, writes Claire Bond Potter.
The current Branch Davidians were delighted the man they call “God’s battering ram” came to revive their cause, writes Claire Bond Potter.
As Women’s History Month begins, let’s start with the present, writes Claire Bond Potter.
The question is why?
Can he turn politics around?
The ongoing dismantling of the democratic state.
None of the witnesses will have their lives back fully.
And will the loser of the Republican race in Pennsylvania concede?
More likely than a mass exodus from the social media platform is that things will go on much as they did before.