Richard Nixon

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

It took well over a century for the office of the attorney general to accrue power and independence. Trump could blow that all up.

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.

In the sixties, the U.S. government ran a secret project to look for gold in the oddest places: seawater, meteorites, plants, even deer antlers.

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

January 2017's Women's March wasn't the first time Fifth Avenue in New York City hosted an enormous demonstration.

How the disaster energized the nascent environmental movement and led to a slew of legislative changes.

The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?