Power

Why the American public is infatuated with the relationship between physical fitness and the presidency.

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.

That's the conclusion of a psychology study published in the journal Sciece.

The rise and fall of Clintonism.

It's part of the glorification of the military that's been happening since the first Gulf War.

The Olympics have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological conflicts in sport.

The Trump Administration has clamored for a military parade. What are the origins of tank-led celebrations?

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

Trump's plans for the federal workforce sound reasonable, but they would actually undo a century of reforms.

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

For unpopular presidents, the State of the Union is a minefield.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.

It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked.

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.