Bill Clinton

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

Two different accounts from Prospect’s co-founders on how Postwar prosperity gave way to rising inequality, political polarization, and cultural conflict.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Revisiting a turning point in the history of Israel’s occupation.

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

The rollback of LGBTQ rights echoes a deeply consequential chapter of American history: the Lavender Scare.

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

In the 1990s, an entire industry was born of trying to convince Americans that Beanie Babies were a great investment opportunity.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

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

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

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

Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.