Richard Nixon

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

A smooth forehead suggests a hard heart.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.

Choosing a running mate used to be more about campaigning than governing. But after Richard Nixon’s ruinous relationship with Spiro Agnew, the job has changed.

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.

The story of the oil shocks of 1973 and how they continue to shape the world we live in today.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.

Nixon’s 1973 firing of a Watergate prosecutor raised questions about executive power, accountability and the limits of the law.

From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights.

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.

JFK's presidential win in 1960 offers a guide for how Democrats can rebound in 2025.

The August 1973 contretemps over President Nixon's bombing of Cambodia was a turning point in how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications.