Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized ...

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Roosevelt’s eight Supreme Court justices helped pen some of the Court’s best decisions—and some of its worst.

The radical right is now wreaking havoc with our democracy and endangering every hard-won gain of the last century, stoking fear and diverting the energies of progressives and many of their allies to ...

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As the Democratic field for the 2020 presidential campaign begins to fill out, we begin to sense that the next election will be pivotal for two reasons. The first and more obvious one involves whether ...

A few years before he retired last summer, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens remarked that since 1971, every one of the justices appointed to the Court—he included himself—was more conservative ...

The co-author of an important new book talks about her research, the current crisis, and whether we can turn it into an opportunity.