Jimmy Carter

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.

Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.

Celebrating the Federal Reserve as a cockpit for economic steering conceals the reality of where power lies today.

In the 20th century, a moral economy of “whites-only” wealth animated federal policies and programs that created the propertied white middle class.

Politicians across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny; but their solution misses the mark.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."

Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.

The Federal Reserve keeps increasing interest rates to try to bring prices down — but that may erase gains by non-White workers.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

The history of control and decontrol in the oil market.

The long, strange saga of government cheese.

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.