Power

An historian debunks the vice president’s op-ed.

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

Responding to “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” by Celeste Henery.

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.

A review of "Great Society: A New History," by Amity Shlaes.

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.

John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”

Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.

Over 1000 historians have signed this statement condemning President Trump's actions.

Breaking with party unity can be costly. In the 1950's, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine faced backlash after she condemned McCarthy, a fellow Republican.

Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers

For Nixon stalwarts on the House Judiciary Committee, defending the President became an inalterable epitaph.

In 1935, the case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Senate’s power to jail a recalcitrant aviation industry lawyer.

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

From rum to cakes to rowdy parades, election day was a time for gathering and celebration.

The revolutionaries were fighting against arbitrary power and for checks and balances.

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.

A case from almost a decade ago reveals the peril faced by whistleblowers seeking to expose wrongdoing.

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual.

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

A political neophyte delivered a speech from note cards — and made history.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.