Power

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.

An hour of stories about a few high-stakes inaugurations from the past.

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.

The dramatic story of the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

Do successful presidents make sound knife-wielders?

A case of 18th-century politicking has stymied our ability to deal with a 21st-century crisis.

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

Political funerals and the tour of Henry Clay's corpse.

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

Grover Cleveland believed that if anything happened to his mustache during his surgery at sea, the public would know something was wrong.

To mark the culmination of Census 2010, we explore the fascinating story of how Americans have counted themselves.

Nine maps of the transatlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1900.

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?