Richard Hofstadter

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?

“Together with other ‘know nothing’ organizations scattered through the country, it represents a basic, continuing phenomenon in American society.”