Theodore Roosevelt

Never before have administrations scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

If too much partisanship is the problem, more bureaucracy might be the answer.

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.

Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.

During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours.

“When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.”

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Greg Grandin’s new book tells the story of US expansionism and its complex relationship with the rest of the New World.

Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.