Bill Clinton

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

The assassination of the president is part of a pattern that undermines democracy.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

Business groups have always worked with both parties to support globalization and free trade.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.