Richard Nixon

Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Fifty years later, the legacy of the National Cancer Act illustrates the need for a broad approach.

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

In the 60s and 70s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes.

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

Reform was framed as a way of removing “politics” from postal affairs and giving more autonomy to postal management. In time, it would prove to do neither.

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.