Richard Nixon

In 1964, the John Birch Society was the most active far-right group in the United States—unless you count the Republican Party.

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.

And history says they have a reason to be.

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

“Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”

The collapse of the Republican Party.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

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

That’s the lesson of Dwight Eisenhower’s serious heart attack.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

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

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

Even housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.