Barack Obama

Is there still a civil rights movement?

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

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.

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.

Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.

When Jim Obergefell and his partner John Arthur decided to marry after more than 20 years together, their home state refused to recognize same-sex marriages.

The nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, depicts a wounded, fearful society, teetering on the brink of disaster. Sound familiar?

From the 1994 Crime Act to Trump 2.0.

For as long as the United States has had nuclear weapons, officials have struggled with how to transport the destructive technology.

On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.

If world leaders had been clearer about the sanctions Putin would face, they might have deterred his invasion of Ukraine.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.