Power

The relationship between presidents and vice presidents is unique and often personal. Sometimes, internal divisions spill out into public life.

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.

At its peak in the 1920s and early ’30s, the Socialist Party in Wisconsin used confrontational tactics and nonsocialists alliances to make legislative advances.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.

What the three-fifths clause meant at ratification.

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

The 40th president inadvertently prepared the ground for the 45th in multiple ways.

The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.

Historians may never speak of an “Age of Adams” to rival Andrew Jackson, but Randall Woods’s new biography reveals the sixth president’s greatness.

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

In 1916, an unlikely duo exposed political corruption in Indiana, setting a new precedent for fair voting across the country.

The white pines of New England may have done more than any leaf of tea to kick off the American Revolution.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.

In 2002, Republicans attacked the patriotism of a distinguished Democratic veteran. It worked and they've kept doing it ever since.

By suggesting that those seeking asylum in the U.S. are dangerous, Trump echoes the often false narratives around the 1980s Mariel boatlift.

My grandmother and the fight over the 1964 Mississippi delegation.

On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

A grand strategy for a turbulent world.

Liberalism’s relationship to equality has, his­torically, been far from a warm embrace.

Scientists peered into the partisan abyss. They looked to see why hostility has become so high between groups with different political leanings.

Is this America?

In the 20th century, American Communists were seen as an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with complex lives that deserve to be chronicled.

And national security became everything.

Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking mastermind elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964.

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

What the scholarship on biraciality tells us about politics now.

A college group pioneered the dirty tricks that led to Watergate. Fifty years later, the tactics still poison politics.