Jimmy Carter

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

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

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on how her mother overcame voter suppression and became an activist in her community.

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

Citizenship used to demand sacrifice. Then we taught Americans to buy things instead.

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.

Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.

But did they backfire?