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.

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

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

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.

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.

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.

The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

The 1946 elections were a disaster for Democrats—and the reason I was born.