Ronald Reagan

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into something very different.

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.

Why we pay.

The 42 minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

Does recognizing the importance of conservatism in the twentieth century make us see the arc of American history in a new way?

Grover Cleveland believed that if anything happened to his mustache during his surgery at sea, the public would know something was wrong.

George Washington scales new heights.

Making history more appealing to the public may come at a cost.

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.

Was the 2008 Heller decision a victory for originalism or a living Constitution?