Power

Donald Trump’s 2024 win, echoing the Gilded Age, highlights America’s volatile, close elections, partisan divides, and structural barriers shaping politics.

The politician presents a riddle for historians. He was a beloved populist but also a crackpot conspiracist. Were his politics tainted by his strange beliefs?

LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

James Graham Wilson makes a compelling case that the under-celebrated example of Paul Nitze is both instructive and worthy of our emulation.

There are uncanny parallels between the elections of 2024 and 1856, with one big exception: in 1856, it was the political left that was on the offensive.

If you want a clear strategy for winning wars, don’t play a semantic game with the name of the department that’s charged with the strategy’s execution.

Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.

Using Murray Rothbard vs. Sam Francis to understand the next administration.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

It hasn't happened for 100 years.

The only president before Trump to win, lose, and win again ended up decimating his own party during his second term.

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

Explore the groundbreaking career of the first Black woman to seek the U.S. presidency.

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?

Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?

America’s only successful insurrection.

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.

Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.

We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.

We must stand by the principles of the open society, pluralism, freedom, and mutual toleration.

Some early progressives may have been advocates of states’ rights, but they misunderstood the philosophy of the American Founding.

As a congressman, Davy Crockett found ways to navigate populist upheaval and maintain his own independence.

When the Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged into the Democratic machine, its populist energies were chewed up and spat out.

Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

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

It’s not whom you’d want to get a beer with, but whom you’d want to watch getting a beer.

Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to balancing power.