Every modern commander in chief, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama, has gripped-and-grinned for the cameras with cruel authoritarians.
During World War I, vaudeville star Elsie Janis traveled to France to bring good cheer to U.S. troops.
How a bunch of tiny police departments in eastern Massachusetts are fighting the opioid epidemic by offering treatment, not jail.
The president stood accused of racism and abuse of power, contempt for his enemies and a firing that subverted the rule of law.
Four weeks into President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, his chief foe, the most ardent civil rights advocate in Congress, rose to speak. It was 150 years ago, but Thaddeus Stevens’s denunciation of Johnson still resonates today amid calls for President Trump’s impeachment.
Their courage made headlines across the country, hailing the African-American regiment as heroes even as they faced discrimination at home.
After 16 years in Congress, former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich is running for Ohio’s highest office on a platform of infrastructure jobs, free college tuition and more.
Making sure tuberculosis patients take their medicine is time consuming and expensive. But in Houston, video conferencing helped officials monitor patients even during massive flooding.
Doctors then, as now, over-prescribed the painkiller to patients in need. And then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.
In Baltimore, an inventive nonprofit is teaching children from the inner city the skills they need to get good jobs in their hometown.
The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime.
Erick Trickey 