Joe Biden

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.

Decades of stigmatizing and trying to police the homeless have perpetuated the problem.

Let's talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.

Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

History shows that the benefits of such a system can extend far beyond the venues into which such a passport would grant admission .

A welfare state doesn't distort the market; it just makes government aid fairer.

The most significant impact of the Senate’s super majority rules.

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

Technology can break down, but just as often with government tech, glitches are rooted in policy failures.