Jimmy Carter

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said America faces an economic crisis fifty years in the making. But how can we name the long crisis, much less explain it?

In the 60s and 70s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

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.