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Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

As an NRA-approved icon and the mass shooter’s weapon of choice, the AR-15 has done untold harm.

In his undelivered final speech, Kennedy warned the world against ‘voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.’

The Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of the Second Amendment threatens longstanding democratic authority to enact gun safety measures.

Time to blow the final whistle on the oppression Olympics.

At the turn of the century, two important books wrestled with the question of how a nation "conceived in liberty" should engage with the world.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the data illusion of the rags-to-riches stories.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

What kind of place was the town I grew up in?

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

Why we should resist hero-worshipping Ukraine’s president.

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."