Ronald Reagan

Pence invoked them at the Republican debates, but a true reckoning with their history provides a different vision of the nation’s future.

There were more government shutdowns under Ronald Reagan than under every president since, combined. But some were as short as a few hours.

A worldwide effort to heal damage to the ozone layer is showing early progress.

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

How documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and reflections on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

A new book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing traces the path from Ronald Reagan’s antigovernment ideology to today’s radicalized right.

James Watt was a fiery evangelical, a cultural laughingstock—and instrumental in shaping modern GOP rhetoric on the environment.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

The government responded with ruthless persecution — just one egregious example in the NSA’s long, sordid history of fiercely guarding its secrecy.

Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

Decades of evidence reveals that work requirements for food assistance leave people hungry and hurt the economy. But supporting them remains good politics.

The Reagan administration thought Surgeon General C. Everett Koop would put his faith above public health. Instead, Koop sent all Americans a mailer on AIDS.

As a movement, it has imploded. As a credo, it’s here to stay.

The politicized rhetoric linking race and welfare has a long, ingrained history.

The blacklist didn’t just ruin many workers’ careers — it narrowed the range of acceptable movies and contributed to the conservatism of the 1950s.

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.

Why were in-flight meals so much better in the past?

Regulators with no democratic accountability keep bailing out banks and big depositors — at the cost of billions to taxpayers.

Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.