Jimmy Carter

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

In 1983, the U.S. simulated a nuclear war with Russia—and narrowly avoided starting a real one. We might not be so lucky next time.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

The terms meaning has shifted throughout Christianity’s long history, making it difficult to define.

No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

Building the Panama Canal.

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.

Why we pay.