Barack Obama

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

How experts and their facts created immigration restriction.

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

What do the results of the 2018 midterms portend for the next two years?

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.