Mitch McConnell

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

Business groups have always worked with both parties to support globalization and free trade.

Just because the filibuster wasn't created to promote racial slavery doesn't mean there’s no good argument against it.

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

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.

Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return.

History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concludes an era of faith in courts as partners in the fight for progress and equality.

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.

Federal funding during and after the New Deal ended up hurting cities because of who spent it and how.

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.