Bill Clinton

It took well over a century for the office of the attorney general to accrue power and independence. Trump could blow that all up.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

It happened long before a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 

How do Trump's first 100 days measure up?

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

The stories of two American soldiers – one part German, the other born in Japan – challenge our romantic view of the "Greatest Generation."

Until fairly recently, President Clinton's narrow definition of adultery would have been backed up by the courts.

Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the US into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.

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