Dwight D. Eisenhower

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

The memoirs of Korean adoptees, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.

The rise of tactical gun culture among civilians reveals a new front in the U.S. battle against nativist authoritarianism.

There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

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

After Japan's surrender, U.S. troops rebelled against a plan to keep them overseas, staging dramatic protests from the Philippines to Guam.

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.

The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?

Schools have long been ideological and physical battlegrounds — especially when it comes to citizenship and civil rights.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?