Lisa McGirr

The politicized rhetoric linking race and welfare has a long, ingrained history.

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.

Since the invention of the automobile, police have used the dangers of America's roads to justify their growing oversight of motorists.

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.