Rush Limbaugh

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

First came the politics of right-wing grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create one toxic food fight.

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

In the years before Barack Obama was elected, many groups on the extreme right kept a relatively low profile. With the election of a Black president, that changed.

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.

Pass the free enterprise, please.

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return.

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?

Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).