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Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.

When the phrase became a national obsession, it turned everything from trade rules to dating apps into a potential threat.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

In defining the scope of impeachment, they had in mind the alleged crimes of Warren Hastings.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

Since the founding, Congress has supported democracy and public integrity by protecting those who spoke up about abuses of power.

The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.

A microsyllabus on the history of the U.S.-Mexico border, refugees, and deportation.

A new book makes the case.

William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.

How Mickey Leland and the Congressional Black Caucus paved the way for today's progressive politics.

Koch poured $2 million into an embryonic Libertarian Party to buoy his run for vice president. He knew he wouldn't win—but that wasn't the point.

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.

When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.

It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.