Barack Obama

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

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

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

Is there still a civil rights movement?

Rewriting the past by adding in what's been left out.

The Declaration has always been fought over. We can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its battle cry to “alter or to abolish” what’s destroying our country.

The historian Ada Ferrer’s new memoir retells the story of the island through the “utterly ordinary people” who matter most to her.

We must recognize Democrats share responsibility with the GOP for creating the climate that made such a war possible.

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism.

Mitt Romney’s legacy is a reminder of how governing used to work.

Massive data centers are rising to power AI. The hype echoes how the railroad barons once sold their vision of the future leaving the public paying the costs.

Religious beliefs have driven political change for centuries. The question today is which Christian values will prevail.

At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming lawmakers’ power to declare war – not the president.

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson was a towering figure of progressive politics in his era — or any era.

The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

RFK’s MAHA spectacle offers an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory.