Ronald Reagan

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than the 19th century.

Religious conservatives used the Bush presidency to launch their takeover of the GOP.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

The promise and perils of left populism.