Power

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

The ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line.

Georgia GOP candidate Brian Kemp is using a tried-and-tested formula designed to erode and corrode American democracy.

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.

Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, and battles over America's history.

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.

On his deathbed, GOP strategist Lee Atwater admitted he staged the events that brought down a Democratic presidential candidate.

A series of interactive maps showing the results of nearly two centuries of congressional elections.

Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.

Predictions of society coming undone reflect deep anxieties over the divisions roiling the country, but these professed fears about our future actually provide hope.

Here's how it's supposed to handle Supreme Court nominations.

Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism. Still, we are witnessing a story that's unlikely to have a happy ending.

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.

Congress isn't safe from foreign interference. It never has been.

The themes of his UN General Assembly speech have deep roots in U.S. history.

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

The extremes to which Puerto Rican national Pedro Albizu Campos and his followers fought for independence.

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.

A hurricane historian talks about the still-unfolding disaster in Puerto Rico.

But they've always been risky.

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.