Jimmy Carter

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.

Biden convinced small-government Republicans to increase spending in the War on Crime.

U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.

On Paul Volcker.

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.

The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.