Richard Nixon

In the early 1970s, the idea that private life meant a right to be left alone – an idea forged over centuries – began to disappear. We should mourn its absence.

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

As world leaders scramble to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from escalating, it is often forgotten just how close the Yom Kippur War came to all-out nuclear war.

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

There's more to Gerald Ford, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch,” than Watergate.

How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV.

A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide a desired racial story.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

James Watt was a fiery evangelical, a cultural laughingstock—and instrumental in shaping modern GOP rhetoric on the environment.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

Political repression through the suppression of free expression.

Is the century-old battle metaphor doing more harm than good to doctors and patients alike?

An unlikely pair of Southern California businessmen paved the way for the sushi revolution in Los Angeles, upending American dining — and their own lives.

Seventy years after a disgraceful episode of anti-LGTBQ history, we are facing a new wave of McCarthyist fearmongering.

The Nixon administration saw methadone as a way to reduce crime rather than treat addiction.

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.