Ted Kennedy

Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

The hero worship of the family of American royalty has a dark side: a tendency toward conspiracism that fits with the MAGA movement.

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

The story of how Ed Carnes became a judge offers crucial lessons for those who hope to unwind the policies of mass incarceration.

While the Citizens United case created major shifts in campaign contributions and spending, an earlier decision played a bigger role in campaign finance laws.

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

And cost Gerald Ford the presidency.

Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."

Some lessons for Joe Biden from the ’70s presidents who lived it.

The defeat of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 changed the way justices are confirmed today.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

Fifty years later, the legacy of the National Cancer Act illustrates the need for a broad approach.

The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.

Repeated failures by both political parties to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the Affordable Care Act.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

The last from-the-top critique of American overconsumption generated a massive backlash.