Power

Could Donald Trump really rival James Buchanan?

Reflections on the COVID crisis from Reconstruction.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.

Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”

In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.

What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.

The Kent State shootings further widened the chasm among a citizenry divided over the Vietnam War.

The Combahee River Collective and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie agree that the wealthy and powerful will hijack activist energies for their own ends.

In 1988, Jesse Jackson ran for president on a platform that included universalist policies like single-payer. His success terrified establishment Democrats.

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

A history of U.S. health care debates.

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.

It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades.

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.

Weariness of strong government is a key American tradition. But equally important is the revolutionary idea that national governance should come from the states.

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.