Did Kennedy intend to bring an end to the Vietnam War after his re-election?

What was the effect of Kennedy’s death on the success Johnson had passing his agenda?

In the first in a series for the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s death, this historian answers your questions.

We talk about conservatism’s “business” and "traditionalist" wings. But when it gets right down to it, they’re as interconnected as the two sides of a mobius strip.

Big business used to buy into the center-left consensus. Then, suddenly, it didn’t. 

Despite some stutter steps backward, the relationship between business and the modern right has always advanced in the exact same basic direction: toward romance.

Have you ever noticed how many conservatives cannot believe a sane, sincere, intelligent person could disagree with them? That's a central component of the right-wing mind.

Why today's wacko birds are just like yesterday's wingnuts.

You know about Keystone XL—but activists want you to know about the record number of dirty, dangerous pipelines springing up elsewhere that grassroots action might have the power to stop.