Power

Politics keeps refighting the Founding: Amar says liberals inherit originalism, but that tale smooths 19th-century contradictions.

Critics of Nicolás Maduro's capture would be on much stronger footing if they were originalists.

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton may be titans of the American Founding, but these two poles don't describe everything.

Both France and the United States were born in revolutions that overthrew kings, yet neither has ever stopped searching for a leader to embody the nation.

Trump has reinvented Reagan’s old attack, with one key twist.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept.

Washington believed that civility toward other nations was a strategy to preserve independence, not a concession.

A new book recounts diverse opinions among US foreign policy intellectuals during the Korean War.

The origins of national security.

In Making the Presidency, Lindsay Chervinsky shows how Adams made decisions when no structure or precedent offered guidance.

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York.

A close examination of the writings of Wisconsin's Victor Berger shows that his views on race changed dramatically over time.

On George Washington’s farewell address of 1796.

Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics.

Descended from Jewish immigrants, Stephen Miller's project is to close the country to people like his ancestors.

Reflections on the book and lessons for the present environmental movement.

Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

At a pivotal moment in the Cold War, the decision was made that the President would be ultimately responsible for atomic weapons.

A new book says polarization breeds impunity from scandal. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.

The Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.

Why 1776 became the year Americans declared themselves an independent nation.

How promises of compensation for Black enlistment helped push Maryland toward ending slavery.

Documents reveal the Ford administration's Efforts to block revelations of CIA covert operations in Chile.

But not because the founders wanted to see more guns in the hands of Americans.

From Nixon to Trump.