Power

The Gilded Age roots of Trump's trade philosophy.

When first-term Representative Leon Sacks of Pennsylvania introduced H.R. 6546 on April 21, 1937, the Earth did not stop spinning. But it almost did.

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Giuliani’s old playbook of engaging in the politics of white grievance fits perfectly with his role as an unofficial aide to President Trump.

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.

The constitutional standard for impeachment is different from what’s at play in a regular criminal trial.

Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.

Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.

She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston.

Biden’s assistance to William Casey, Reagan’s CIA director, and the rehabilitation of the intelligence service in general has had tragic consequences.

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

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?

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

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.