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.

Yale Law’s famed tiger mother is guilty of many things, but sexual harassment isn’t one of them

June 10, 2021 /

Claire Bond Potter cuts through the noise to reveal the world Title IX made.

Liz Cheney is betting ‘the former guy’ won’t be the GOP’s kingmaker, or king, for very much longer

May 4, 2021 /

Can the House GOP’s No. 3 finish what she started? asks Claire Bond Potter.

Why did Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson call an anti-trans bill ‘indefensible’ before vetoing it?

April 6, 2021 /

First, consider where these bills originate, writes Claire Bond Potter.

The Republican Party seems willing to absorb as many legislative losses as possible. Why?

March 23, 2021 /

The reason is as cunning as it is cynical, writes Claire Bond Potter

Why does the right insist Biden is senile?

March 16, 2021 /

Why it’s not about his age.

Republicans know their new ‘culture war’ isn’t fooling anyone, much less Republicans

March 3, 2021 /

Claire Bond Potter explains how we’ve been here before.

The gender politics of public tears

February 24, 2021 /

Dry eyes ruled the Trump era. Now crying is back.

Is impeachment about ‘regime change’?

February 10, 2021 /

Yes, Claire Bond Potter says, but it signals a restored Democratic Party, too.

Why conservatives love ‘the slippery slope’

February 5, 2021 /

Claire Bond Potter says it teaches Americans to fear government.