Barack Obama

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

Is there still a civil rights movement?

Rewriting the past by adding in what's been left out.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June.

For many, Dick Cheney epitomized idealistic foreign policy hubris.

It had been home to the Office of the First Lady since the 1970s.

How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

The former President once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt. The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is.

The Congressional Hackathon highlights fading faith in tech fixes and exposes the limits of AI optimism.

Blaming video games for violence saves Americans from having to grapple with deeper, harder to solve societal problems.

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

How three eras of racial progress gave way to the presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, and Trump.

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.

Two different accounts from former Democratic Party insiders about the “giant U-turn” from postwar prosperity to the polarization and inequality of today.

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.

At one time, wearing white after Labor Day was not just considered a fashionable “faux pas,” but a mark of bad manners and bad taste.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.