The president's son-in-law is the Trump era's Forrest Gump.

Director Brett Morgen’s latest documentary tells Jane Goodall’s story with newly discovered footage.

Before he was a Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer battling the same forces that confront our justice system today.

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

As the Trump administration slashes refugee levels, an expert on Central America writes that US foreign policy decisions across the region are at the roots of the current refugee crisis.

Brought to you by its chief beneficiary: the military-industrial complex.

It's only become a hot-button issue in recent decades. For America's first century, abortion wasn’t banned in a single US state.

A look at 50 years of impediments to safe abortion.

America was never what it had purported to be.

American populism in the Trump era will benefit only those who are already rich. There is reason to fear that the US is now on the path to what was previously known as Latin American populism.