Mitch McConnell

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.

Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism. Still, we are witnessing a story that's unlikely to have a happy ending.

The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.

Researchers measured lawmakers’ wealth and found that those whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today.

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.

Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

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

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.