Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

How the Democrats have alienated a growing number working-class voters.

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.

Two different accounts from former Democratic Party insiders about the “giant U-turn” from postwar prosperity to the polarization and inequality of today.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Revisiting a turning point in the history of Israel’s occupation.

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

The rollback of LGBTQ rights echoes a deeply consequential chapter of American history: the Lavender Scare.

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

From the 1994 Crime Act to Trump 2.0.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

In the 1990s, an entire industry was born of trying to convince Americans that Beanie Babies were a great investment opportunity.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.