Listed as a series, the congressional impasses, conflicts, and imbroglios of the past five years resemble plot points for a dark television satire titled “Apocalypse As Usual.” The latest installment ...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid compared Senate Republicans to past segregationist Dixiecrats for their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Throughout Jackson’s Senate hearings, several ...

It was Inauguration Day, and in the judgment of one later historian, "the atmosphere in the nation's capital bore ominous signs for Negroes." Washington rang with happy Rebel Yells, while bands all ...

Joe Biden is still contending with the blowback that greeted his remarks at a fundraiser in New York City last Tuesday extolling the "civility" of the Senate in the 1970s. The former vice president ...

The Dixiecrats' futile run for the presidency in 1948 was a political footnote -- but it signaled big changes to come. The short-lived party boosted an ambitious politician named Strom Thurmond, ...

With respect to Williamson’s claims, the relevant data point about 1964 isn’t Republican performance in “the South” or even among “southern whites,” but Goldwater’s boffo perfomance among ...