Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.

The new podcast discusses how purity is woven into many of the myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today.

After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

A bad history.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

The shadow of Samuel Adams, a crafty and government-wary revolutionary, lingers over the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.

A new book argues that the American right emerged out of a backlash to multiracial democracy following the Civil War.

The second section of the Fourteenth Amendment offers severe penalties for menacing the right to vote—if anyone can figure out how to enforce it.

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.

Southern secessionists in 1860 had similar arguments to those of the rioters who stormed the Capitol.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving into the mainstream.

How the decline of liberal religion transformed American Christianity — and politics.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.