Harry S. Truman

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.

In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America what nuclear war looks like. We were never the same again.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.

In the first half of the 20th-Century, the Declaration of Independence underwent an innovative preservation process and a lengthy custody dispute.

It bears the mark of the writer’s life and his times.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

Coretta Scott King would become one of the nation’s most visible—and, to some, most dangerous—critics of America’s rapidly expanding war in Vietnam.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.

More than 75 years ago, one veteran fought the U.S. government’s right-wing blacklists. Today, we should learn from his example.

Far from being a new debate, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself.

It is time for conservatives to reclaim their criticism of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

How the U.S. Post Office took point on civil defense.

Gen. Leslie Groves promoted Oppenheimer as the atomic bomb's inventor to craft a propaganda narrative, obscuring the true creators and moral implications.

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.