A brief look at the usage of "witch hunt" in American politics through the centuries. Trump is reviving a controversial budget tactic, putting a Nixon-era fight over presidential power and ...

After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state ...

Conservatives in South Carolina first attempted to defeat the state’s new post-Civil War constitution by appealing to the federal government they had fought three years prior. A petition was ...

Madeline Grimm is a writer and editor based in New York City. She has written for outlets including Lapham’s Quarterly, The Drift, and the Cleveland Review of Books. The Muse: History, by ...