Richard Nixon

The man who changed America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

Some see the reaction to Sen. Fetterman’s announcement as a sign of progress, but that’s less true than you might think.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.

A helpful way to think about the JFK assassination, and political assassinations more generally, is to be more Dragnet about it than discursive.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.

From Bikram yoga to Tae Bo, the 1990s exploded with exoticized consumer fitness products.

Politicians across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny; but their solution misses the mark.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

Everyone would benefit from new rules forcing greater transparency in political donations.

Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

To understand why evangelicals vote Republican, we shouldn’t focus just on Falwell; we need to look at a century or more of evangelical political culture.

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.

History shows that targeted price caps work when accompanied by a public campaign.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.