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The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

While Wednesday's images shocked us, they fit into our history.

An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we have actually been.

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.

The rioters at the Capitol are part of an unbroken American tradition. Sweet talk about our “better angels” did not defeat them before and will not now.

True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.

Some supporters of the violent mob scene at the Capitol proclaimed it was the beginning of a “Second American Revolution.”

The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.

Trump fans are better off as Americans.

Born enslaved, he was elected to Congress in the wake of the Civil War. But the impact of this momentous step in U.S. race relationships did not last long.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.

States have a legitimate way to influence national politics. Forcing their will on other states isn't it.

On the ten year anniversary of Aziz Rana's book, Henry Brooks interviews him on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.

Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?

Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.

A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump.

Fears that teachers were indoctrinating kids were rampant in the 1950s. But the reality was more complicated.

The irrational, the political, and fear of elections in colonial Pennsylvania.

It never has.

Horseback travel time is only part of the story.

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.