Chris Lehmann

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

From “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” to “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” what do bestselling guides to self-improvement reveal about the United States?

Fearful of increasing participation, elites of the era attempted to rein in democracy.

Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.

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