Power

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.

Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?

Women’s role in the 1920s KKK can teach us about racism today.

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

Putting Trump's approval rating in historical context.

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.

A new book about the My Lai massacre raises the question: how much of an aberration was the infamous wartime episode?

Keeping the Irish poor out of America helped shape our restrictive immigration policies.

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.

Since the Mexican-American War, Army regulars haven't always been treated as heroes.