Power

President Trump is by no means off the mark to call attention to Andrew Jackson as a precursor. The analogy, however, is not necessarily flattering.

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

The word is two centuries old.

What would happen if some crazed gunman or terrorist massacred Congress? We don’t really know — and that’s bad news for our democracy.

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

Why the president, who appears allergic to the logic of bureaucracy, keeps getting defeated by that humblest of technologies, the office memorandum.

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.

He risked his life to liberate his family and became a legend in the process.

Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

The Fish Wars of the 1960s led to an affirmation of Native American rights.

Decades before Watergate, mobsters helped turn hearings into must-see television.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.

Ronald Reagan is at the heart of the modern American politics of advertising, public relations, and a television in every home.

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.

Hillary Clinton is the most maligned presidential loser in history. What’s going on?

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash.