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Women could make history this year — but there's still a long way to go before there's equal representation.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

The outrage over family separation creates an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

But can locally empowered communities really fix our schools' problems?

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.

Anticommunist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, won’t be missed.

From the first exchange of gunfire in 1865 to the 1953 ceasefire, and beyond.

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.

Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.

For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.

The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.

“Baron Von Steuben” was responsible for whipping the U.S. military into shape when things were looking bleakest.

How representative is the U.S. House of Representatives?

On the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, a glimpse inside one of his closest relationships.

These days, Hollywood is more democratic than Washington.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

On November 9, 1983, the Soviet Union nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.

We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.

The worldview laid out in the 94-year old law is still the foundational principle of American immigration policy today.

From the first tenement regulation to work requirements for public-housing residents, these are key moments in housing policy.

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.

Travel documentation was created to restrict – and it may become even more entrapping in the future.

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.