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Will Anthony Kennedy Retire?

What Influences a Justice’s Decision

All of American history fits in the life span of only three presidents

We’re just four presidential lives away from the Founding Fathers. John Adams.

Every president’s health, ranked

Why was Rutherford B. Hayes the healthiest US president of all time?

Was Pirate Black Sam Bellamy Found? DNA Test Could Tell

Researchers are working to use DNA to identify whether a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.

How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?

According to the 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section who filled out this survey, Trump ranks worst.

A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence survived the Civil War hidden behind wallpaper. Later it was tossed in a box.

Only recently did it resurface.

‘We say now’: The day more than 25,000 Florida teachers resigned over pay and school funding

It was Feb. 16, 1968, a Friday, and a sign of what was coming that Monday in Florida: the nation’s first statewide teachers strike.

Polish prime minister seeks dialogue with Israel on 'difficult history'

Mateusz Morawiecki said Sunday that dialogue with Israel about the Holocaust is necessary and would serve as a warning to prevent such "exceptionally terrifying" crimes from happening again.

Writer Makes the Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

by Jill Abramson

With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to talk seriously about impeachment, argues Jill Abramson.

Finding a Lock of George Washington’s Hair, and a Link to American History

A librarian going through a book at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., found a thin envelope that may add to the odd history of a founding father’s hair.

Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too.

“We’ve been doing this kind of thing since the C.I.A. was created in 1947,” said Mr. Johnson, the dean of American intelligence scholars, who began his career in the 1970s investigating the C.I.A. as a staff member of the Senate’s Church Committee.

The names of Mexican farm workers killed 70 years ago in a plane crash have finally been found

When the radio described the dead as nameless ‘deportees’, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about them.

S.C. museum seeking $350,000 to display Statehouse Confederate flags

A South Carolina museum is sending a $350,000 request to lawmakers for displaying a pair of Confederate flags that flew over the Statehouse grounds, but its leaders have another suggestion: showcase the banners someplace else.

Public Rates Presidents: Kennedy, Reagan, Obama at Top

Nixon, Johnson, and Trump are at the bottom.

Savannah Approves Changes to Confederate Monument From 1875

Savannah renaming its 143-year-old Confederate monument to honor all soldiers killed in the Civil War.

Law Professor Eric Posner Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude

It’s like indentured servitude, but with a Silicon Valley spitshine as a gig economy solution.

Elizabeth Warren’s striking speech responding to Trump’s “Pocahontas” taunts

“Pocahontas’s real journey was far more remarkable — and far darker — than the myth admits.”

When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise

In the 1990s, older Californians struggled to make way for a younger, more diverse generation. Here’s how that 'racial generation gap’ transformed the state – and what it means for the rest of the US.

Germans Quietly Pass an Equinox of Unity, but the Walls Remain

Roughly one generation lived with the wall. Roughly one generation has now lived without it. But in many ways it is still a tale of two countries.

White House hosts Black History Month event

Trump was joined at the event by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Surgeon General Jerome Adams, the only two senior Trump administration officials who are black.