Harry S. Truman

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.

A brief review of history.

In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America what nuclear war looks like. We were never the same again.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.

Far from being a new debate, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself.

It is time for conservatives to reclaim their criticism of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Gen. Leslie Groves promoted Oppenheimer as the atomic bomb's inventor to craft a propaganda narrative, obscuring the true creators and moral implications.

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

June 25 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. But the truth is that the US was a willing partner in mass murder across the peninsula.

Red Scare can be read as solid history of the years it depicts—and chilling prophecy of the years to come.

Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit could make a successful program even better—and address a major crisis.

A brief look at the usage of "witch hunt" in American politics through the centuries.

What the Constitution asks of us.

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.