Power

George Washington knew the perils of letting scandals linger.

Talk about caudillos is always, in reality, a discussion of their followers.

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

Economic rationales for schooling are eroding democracy.

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

A history of denaturalization in the US.

The conservative conspiracy lit that paved the way for Donald Trump.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.

Exploring the last 100 years of women in politics through data.

A look at the Clinton blunders that continue to damage his party today.

From domestic concentration camps to the war on terror.

The trials of Jimmy Carter.

Democrats don’t think America lives up to liberal democratic ideals. Republicans don’t think Americans need to.

Even America's founding document isn't immune to the powers of polarization.

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.

A review of Stephen Brumwell's most recent book.

A conservative pundit questioned the prevalence of Dixiecrats switching to the GOP. Historian Kevin Kruse accepted the challenge.

The tension between nationalist ambitions and republican principles goes all the way back to our nation’s founding.

Whether it ran smoothly or ground to a halt, the mail offered daily reminders that the hand of war touched every aspect of life.

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.