Julian E. Zelizer

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

Congress's role in shaping policies like the Affordable Care Act and exonerating Port Chicago sailors is often overlooked, overshadowed by the president.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality

The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.

Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.