Policy riders buried in tax and spending bills would let in more political money, less light.

Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.

Three historians weigh in on where in America's past President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans might take us. #MAGA is a time machine with several stops. Take our guided tour.

The reel of Trumpian “reforms” always spins backward.

Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy.

We haven't come very far at all since the civil rights victories of the 1960s.

Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.

House Republicans were willing to shut down the government over Obamacare. We take a look back at other critics and roadblocks to social programs that are popular today.