Dwight D. Eisenhower

From 1947 until the 1990s, an estimated 10,000 LGBTQ people were pushed out of government and military positions.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

The history of eugenics in the Progressive Age.

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?

What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway into its present crisis.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?