Ronald Reagan

How Ibn Khaldun influenced the president and a generation of conservative tax policy.

You can argue over whether Jimmy Carter was America’s greatest president, but he was undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans to ever become president.

Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

How did taxes become something we "do"?

Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.

One of the country’s greatest rhetorical traditions still has the power to remind us of our founding principles.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.

How the Southern Strategy of the late 20th century gave rise to the modern GOP.

There was really only one big difference between liberal drug warriors and conservative ones.

Ronald Reagan's economic policies exacerbated the racial wealth gap— and they've guided all his successors.

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.

Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.”

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.