Gerald Ford

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

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.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

Even housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.

Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

A strong woman using a new tool to talk to people who were otherwise overlooked played as a joke for some. But was it effective?

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.