Ronald Reagan

Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.

In 1978, Carter protected 56M Alaskan acres, tripled wilderness lands, championed conservation, and foresaw climate risks, leaving a lasting green legacy.

Jimmy Carter is known as a eradicator of disease and champion for world peace, but he also supported environmental efforts closer to home.

The philosophy that drives the GOP's attacks on government and how it has fueled some of our biggest problems.

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

We’ve been fighting over gas stoves for decades.

In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.

After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene.

Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.

Conservative “populism” has never been about egalitarianism, but about mobilizing support for traditional hierarchies.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?

Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.

A historic victory in the midterm elections will let Democrats repeal the state’s right-to-work laws and return to its labor roots.

An admission of wrongdoing from the U.S. government came later, but a Supreme Court ruling had lasting impact.

Some lessons for Joe Biden from the ’70s presidents who lived it.

Shows from "Mr. Belvedere" to "Grace Under Fire" fought ignorance and prejudice with more care and passion than many who had been elected to public office

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.