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We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.

Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?

The Hatch Act was crafted in response to New Deal-era political maneuvering.

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

The government saw Red when looking at William Gropper's painting of the United States.

President Trump’s criticisms of government workers have something in common with Joe McCarthy’s.

The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.

The debate about the nature of Woodrow Wilson's health is intertwined with questions about his self-righteous character.

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Abortion was first criminalized in the mid 1900s amidst concerns that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

How it came to be that Puerto Rico came to have a separate but unequal status under American law.

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

The story of the Bald Knobbers is a terrifying parable about what happens when government fails and violence reigns.

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

Concerns are raised when the first lady treats her office like a brand.

'The Future Is Female' was popularized in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier.

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.