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Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the rule, but Congress originally intended to prioritize public health.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

After World War II ended, government and military leaders were ready to return women to their domestic roles. But one woman had other ideas.

Until the Civil War, regulating immigration to the US was left to individual states. That changed with Emancipation and the legal end of slavery.

What the debate about the Arctic Refuge tells us about science denialism.

A detailed look on Abraham Lincoln's political philosophy on slavery, ownership, and freedom.

Belknap’s downfall was his decision to abuse his authority to appoint “sutlers” or civilian merchants who ran trading posts that served military outposts.

NIMBYs were citizen activists who set a model for participatory democracy that YIMBYs should follow.

One woman’s crusade for democratic participation and political efficacy in the face of powerful institutions.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.

Politicians from both sides used to agree on immigration policy. What happened?

David Beito has penned one of the most damning scholarly histories of FDR to date.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

How the Southern Strategy of the late 20th century gave rise to the modern GOP.

James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

What might appear to be common values about shared identities can serve not as a bridge but a wedge.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.

After Congress robbed Washingtonians of local and federal representation, decades of activism -- slowed by racist opposition -- finally succeeded in 1973.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

The prominence of politicos-turned-pundits is a product of cable news' turn to opinion commentary as a cheap and easy way to meet the needs of 24/7 coverage.