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Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

The outrage over family separation creates an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

Angry that ICE is ripping families apart? Don’t just blame Trump. Blame Clinton, Bush and Obama, too.

Nuclear disarmament talks with the North Koreans go back at least a quarter-century. How did we get to Singapore?

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

From the first tenement regulation to work requirements for public-housing residents, these are key moments in housing policy.

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?