Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

An excerpt from Timothy Lombardo's "Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics ."

In the midst of the secession crisis, Unionists accused slave traders of waging an assault on democracy.

On his deathbed, GOP strategist Lee Atwater admitted he staged the events that brought down a Democratic presidential candidate.

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.

A series of interactive maps showing the results of nearly two centuries of congressional elections.

A new study on Civil War prisoners suggests that our parents’—and even grandparents’—experiences might affect our DNA.