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Both presidents were avid deregulators when it came to environmental rules on industry, but Trump's efforts to cast doubt on science head in a very different direction.

The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency leadership on the ground.

George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist decades before popular political progressives in the US espoused the ideology.

In 1982, the brutal beating and death of Vincent Chin near a Detroit nightclub enraged the Asian American community and led to changes in the legal system.

The MAGA base is not happy. Trump's handling of the Epstein controversy has done significant damage to his standing, particularly among his core supporters.

Gerrymandering has existed since the United States' earliest days, but now technology and political trends are supercharging it.

Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characterizes it, a scholar writes.

The last eight members of Congress who died in office were Democrats. A younger generation of office seekers has raised their opponent's age as a significant issue in their campaigns.

Donald Trump aims to rewrite America's official history, including at one of the nation's key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwell would recognize Trump's impulse.

Donald Trump isn't the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.