Power

The Teapot Dome scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

Father and son alike, suspicious of too much charisma.

A history of tactile politics.

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.

When FDR found out how beholden New York politicians were to mobsters, he ordered the Seabury commission to investigate.

This is not the first time Barr has been accused of covering up official legal findings.

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

Madison's Notes of the Constitutional Convention answer a current argument on the Electoral College.

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?

How Harold Washington became Chicago’s first black mayor.

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists — and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since.

After months of political maneuvering, intrigue, backroom bargaining, and furious oratory, the fate of FDR's plan was clear.

How experts and their facts created immigration restriction.

The former Bush mouthpiece had more to do personally with the Iraq WMD catastrophe than he wants us to believe.

Military necessity drove political support for a women’s draft.

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.

Walter Jones and the unintended consequences of the War Crimes Act of 1996.

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.

The United States must devise a program that addresses the root causes of migration.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

Before the establishment of the modern FDA, anti-regulation attitudes ruled the world of food.