Barack Obama

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.

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

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

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.

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.