Ronald Reagan

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

The collapse of the Republican Party.

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.

Gains made under Carter’s presidential leadership in the early 1980s might have bought the planet precious time.

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

The fight over free education is much older than you think.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

Education campaigns for HIV/AIDS hold lessons for COVID-19.

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”