Bill Clinton

A new book on the Clinton presidency reveals how it abandoned a progressive vision for a finance-led agenda for economics and geopolitics.

America’s 37th president tried to save America’s Russia policy in the 1990s.

In his latest book, Michael Kazin argues that the Democrats have long sought to build a “moral capitalism.” Have they ever succeeded?

An overhyped new paradigm proved to be a slogan without a movement.

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

Economic and social issues with roots in the 1994 midterms are still being debated today.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. We squandered it completely.

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.

Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.

The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.