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We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

How do Trump's first 100 days measure up?

How anti-homosexual policies throughout military history helped shape gay culture today.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.

In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

A warning about the ways we compare Donald Trump to atrocities in history.

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

The outrage and press coverage was nothing compared with that surrounding Hillary Clinton's emails.