Pat Buchanan

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

Today’s “medical freedom” warriors are drawing on a centuries-old American tradition.

The U.S. managed to pay for a child care program during the most expensive war ever. What happened?

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.

The former first lady fought the conservative Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic.

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

St. Louis seems to define America’s past—but does it offer insight for the future?

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?

But the COVID-19 pandemic exposes its weaknesses.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.