Walter Shapiro

Think this year’s Democratic convention is going to be nuts? One hundred years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots—and more than two weeks—to choose a candidate.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. We squandered it completely.

Richard Russell was a segregationist and a fervent opponent of civil rights. So why does his name still adorn the Russell Senate Office Building?

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.