Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris and the lineage of the female cop.

Second-wave feminists meant business—but they had a lot of fun at it, too.

The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.

It’s not whom you’d want to get a beer with, but whom you’d want to watch getting a beer.

Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

The candidate's potential ties to an Irish slave owner invite us to reexamine Ireland’s multilayered historical identity.

Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.

Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking mastermind elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964.

What the scholarship on biraciality tells us about politics now.

The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.

Until the late 1960s, the Democratic Party could have simply anointed a replacement for President Biden. Now it's not so easy.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

In 1952, the newspaper publisher and activist joined a long-shot bid by the Progressive Party, paving the way for politicians like Harris.

How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.

Instead of trying to recapture working class votes, Democrats should be focused on building the kind of economy they need to expand the political map.

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.

Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.