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We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

The Constitution is absolutely clear on this point, but will that matter?

Grover Cleveland enthusiasts aren’t thrilled that Donald Trump won a nonconsecutive presidential term.

As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

The Southern president, who kept his head down following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that “the time for discrimination is over.”

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.

After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson issued the biggest act of presidential clemency in our history. It angered his party and led to his eventual impeachment.

Socialist legislator Zohran Mamdani is running for New York City mayor against a corrupt, unpopular mayor. Morris Hillquit did the same thing a century ago.

An enemies list isn’t a weapon against ‘the Deep State.’ It was a tool Richard Nixon used to create a deep state of his own.

According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a map.

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

Instead of trying to recapture working class votes, Democrats should be focused on building the kind of economy they need to expand the political map.

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

The New Deal-era creation of “Bill of Rights Day” obscures the real nature and guardrails of American liberty.

Donald Trump’s 2024 win, echoing the Gilded Age, highlights America’s volatile, close elections, partisan divides, and structural barriers shaping politics.

The politician presents a riddle for historians. He was a beloved populist but also a crackpot conspiracist. Were his politics tainted by his strange beliefs?

LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

James Graham Wilson makes a compelling case that the under-celebrated example of Paul Nitze is both instructive and worthy of our emulation.

There are uncanny parallels between the elections of 2024 and 1856, with one big exception: in 1856, it was the political left that was on the offensive.

If you want a clear strategy for winning wars, don’t play a semantic game with the name of the department that’s charged with the strategy’s execution.

Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.

Using Murray Rothbard vs. Sam Francis to understand the next administration.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

It hasn't happened for 100 years.

The only president before Trump to win, lose, and win again ended up decimating his own party during his second term.