Barry Goldwater

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

A conservative pundit questioned the prevalence of Dixiecrats switching to the GOP. Historian Kevin Kruse accepted the challenge.

The Democratic leader believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.

The untold story of the double agent who attacked the paper from within.

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

The role of "big government" in American history.