Woodrow Wilson

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.

Accidentally sharing attack plans in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.

During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.

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

Spencerism in America.

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

If you want a clear strategy for winning wars, don’t play a semantic game with the name of the department that’s charged with the strategy’s execution.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.