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.

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.

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.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.

Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

The Year 2000 computer problem continues to nag at us 25 years later.

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.

What is an apology from the President of the United States worth if reparations do not include cessation of settler colonial violence?

On both sides of the color line, to own one’s home remains synonymous with freedom—even as real estate has proven itself to be relentlessly unequal.

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

Political campaigns have often misunderstood Latino voters, oversimplifying their diversity and facing challenges in outreach and engagement.

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.