Harry S. Truman

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

June 25 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. But the truth is that the US was a willing partner in mass murder across the peninsula.

Red Scare can be read as solid history of the years it depicts—and chilling prophecy of the years to come.

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit could make a successful program even better—and address a major crisis.

A brief look at the usage of "witch hunt" in American politics through the centuries.

What the Constitution asks of us.

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.

The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

The 1946 elections were a disaster for Democrats—and the reason I was born.

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

A new book celebrates an American political dynasty dedicated to public service. Why have they been forgotten?

In 1952, news stations combined two new technologies—the TV and the computer—to forever transform how voters experience election night.

History can make the U.S. better prepared for the specter of protracted large-scale ground combat, which has grown more real in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.