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In his intro to No Way Out, finally charting the long, strange trip the UK took from the fraught post-referendum days to leaving the EU in January 2020, Tim Shipman risks a comparison political biographers would shy away from. He declares an urge to match the epic and literary style…

As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.

George H.W. Bush ended his 1980 presidential primary campaign on May 26, 1980

Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and the West Bank after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, debates have arisen among historians and media pundits about Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance on Israel and its conflicts with Palestinians.

West, running for president as an independent, predicts Biden will do as Lyndon Johnson did in 1968 and decide against White House run

One image, taken seconds after President Kennedy was shot, captured the attention of news outlets all over the country. The agent in the center of the image is still coming to terms with that moment.

A mesmerizing new documentary uses archival recordings to give an intimate portrait of a first lady who acted as a shadow politician in the 60s

If the PM doesn’t get rid of her, he’ll look weak; if he does, she’ll rail from the backbenches. Is this all part of the home secretary’s grand plan? asks the Spectator’s political editor, Katy Balls

Lady Bird Johnson's own voice is helping offer new looks at the former first lady in several recent projects