Barack Obama

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.

The 2015 Paris Agreement represented a shift in the climate regime towards "new governance," expanding the roles of nation-states and non-state actors alike.

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong.

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.

Executive power and the Constitution.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

Democrats don’t think America lives up to liberal democratic ideals. Republicans don’t think Americans need to.

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

How Consoler-in-Chiefs respond to senseless gun violence.

Obama's desire to “look forward” on torture has enabled Trump to look backward in his appointment of a new CIA director.

The rise and fall of Clintonism.