“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.

Trump's threat to destroy Iranian cultural sites is a dark national tradition, with the desecration of sacred tribal sites offering the blueprint.

Strong antitrust enforcement is politically more complex than Matt Stoller’s new book allows.

President Donald Trump will protect your favorite national park, but only if it scores him votes.

How the junior senator from Missouri has become the face of the post-liberal movement—and positioned himself as the philosophical heir to Trump.

To make progress in America, the left needs a coherent international agenda.

Unearthing The New Republic's intellectual roots

Philip Dray’s book traces a fraught history from the colonial era to today’s debates over gun rights and conservation.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has a simple idea for keeping big business accountable to the American public, not just shareholders.

Teddy and FDR weren't the anti-corporate crusaders that they're portrayed as by populists today.

History shows why Trump’s rhetoric could affect policy long after he’s left office.

Far from being a historical footnote, she's a pathbreaking pioneer.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

In 1912, the popular third-party candidate stressed "the right of the people to rule" in the first election to truly test the primary system.

In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost

Obama has turned Teddy Roosevelt's famous maxim on its head