Julian E. Zelizer

Democrats don’t want to replicate the hyperpartisan style that has characterized the GOP. But there’s a lot of space between that and caving.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.