Biden Administration

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.

Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. Sophia Rosenfeld exposes the complex legacy of this idea.

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

The administration is trying to neuter the redistributive and protective arms of the state, while exploiting its bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Trump, Xi Jinping, and the tariffs.

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools.

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.

The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

The current political moment is reshaping the narrative about the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Blue America lacks a Gov. Ron DeSantis: someone remaking a state or major city in the image of a well-articulated ideology.

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

And national security became everything.

People who study the past don’t always have special insight into politics. Recent events have made that crystal clear.

Insulin transforms a sick body. It also has the potential to reconstitute our political economic realities.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the rule, but Congress originally intended to prioritize public health.

Politicians from both sides used to agree on immigration policy. What happened?

The special relationship between the United States and Israel was cemented by the support offered by Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the sixties.

Without smart regulation, price competition turns into a race to the bottom.

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.

Three-quarters of a century before artificial intelligence concerns, rapid advances in automation prompted panic about mass unemployment—and radical solutions.

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.