Rick Perlstein | The Nation

The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.

Was Patty Hearst really a rebel in search of a cause?

The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it
can keep its stories straight.

A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.

New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?

China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.

The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.

In December the leaders of the Democratic Leadership Council, Al From and Bruce Reed, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about what the Democrats had to do to attract heartland

A glance back to 1964 shows that predictions are always wrong and always political--and that the left's possibilities may be greater than they seem.