The government is still set to shutdown, after Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump and didn't reach a ...

By Ken Burns and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger President Trump’s threats to democracy have prompted a number ...

A recent editorial was accompanied by a photo of a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 and widely published two months later ...

The Constitution’s framers were informed by colonial practice, which defined ‘executive power’ broadly.

For the first time ever, U.S. players will receive a stipend, but Europeans still won’t.

Puncturing the largely flattering story of an America that created the conditions for Jews to flourish as never before, the ...

From the Declaration of Independence, to railroads, to the rise of conglomerates: Here are 51 seminal moments in the ...

A group of citizen historians, alarmed by Donald Trump's targeting of Smithsonian museums, are on a mission to document their ...

This action followed an April executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to Our American History,” that emphasized a positive view of history in the form of ...

During my time in the civil rights movement, I witnessed heroism amid vicious discrimination that has so much to teach us today.

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government ...

Traditional journalists complain that he is an advocate—the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.