William Jennings Bryan

Shifting voting patterns suggest it’s possible, but only if they persist through subsequent elections.

Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

A new book on the famed 1920s court case traces a long-simmering culture war—and the fear that often drives both sides.

“The most underrated president” was a model of successful governance in a world in flux.

Biden’s withdrawal won’t solve all of Democrats’ problems — but it gives them a chance.

A century ago, the party took a record 103 ballots and 16 days of intense, violent debate to choose a presidential nominee.

On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

The history of grassroots banking politics has been overlooked — and even denied.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

In his latest book, Michael Kazin argues that the Democrats have long sought to build a “moral capitalism.” Have they ever succeeded?

The paths the country took out of that earlier crisis offer valuable lessons for what we should do now, and what we should fear.

Political scientist Richard Bensel explains the feedback loops between policy commitments of political elites and the regional distribution of political power.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

To understand why evangelicals vote Republican, we shouldn’t focus just on Falwell; we need to look at a century or more of evangelical political culture.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

History’s lessons for the volatile digital currency markets.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?