Power

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.

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.

The surprise vice presidential nomination of Julian Bond suddenly turned the televised discussion to poverty, racism, and war.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.