Richard Nixon

Throughout the 60s and 70s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, courts, and police.

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

In 1974, after years of grinding war in Vietnam had exhausted most of the antiwar movement, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda came up with a new strategy.

But it didn’t work out for their parties.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

American Indian tribes have long used activism in their struggle for justice and the preservation of their lands and culture.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

As early at 1955, government reports indicated that DC’s emerging drug problem represented “a serious and tragic and expensive and ominous” development.

How did Americans come to love “mid-century modern”?

Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.

Before the Endangered Species Act, the federal government had actually encouraged the killing of certain species.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended.

The two-volume ‘Codex of the Endangered Species Act’ takes a long look back — and forward.

For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.

Lauded for his strategic insights, the former secretary of state is better remembered for his callousness toward the victims of global conflict.