Power

Whenever Democrats lose votes, pundits crow that they've lost the working class. Not so, though they have alienated unions.

Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.

Why 16 year-olds can help us heal our broken political system.

In the 1872 election, Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the United States – the first woman in American history to do so.

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.

In 1828, Jackson's campaign argued that an 1824 victory was stolen from him. Is it really so clear-cut?

The conversation around race after Hurricane Katrina echoed discourse from another New Orleans disaster 150 years before.

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.

Culture-shocked Americans in the 1960s were all too happy to take directions from the John Birch Society: take an extreme right and drive forever.

Did Thomas Jefferson really believe, “That government is best which governs least?”

It had not only a pivotal effect in Arizona's own labor history, but also on labor activity throughout the country.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.

In 1991, Anita Hill publicly accused then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the early 1980s.

Reagan's use of jokes to openly mock the Soviet system were part of his broader Cold War strategy.

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

The New Deal brought Black voters over to the Democratic Party, but was marred by racial inequality.

Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.

Black Journal interviews with Imamu Amiri Baraka, poet-playwright and co-chairman of the National Black Political Convention.

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.