Ronald Reagan

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.

President Trump's tax plan may be "great", but it will likely not be truly transformative.

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

The undefeatable South.

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins were far worse.

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

One nation, under the gun.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward.

Medicaid has always been fiercely contested political terrain, and past cuts have had disastrous human costs.

The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government.