Bill Clinton

As Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats weigh the potential electoral risks of beginning impeachment proceedings, they must also consider the risks of not doing so.

President Donald Trump is showing us how norms were always just guidelines.

The elder Bush won an election that was hard to win, and lost one that was hard to lose. How does this happen?

Be wary of political parties' dismissal of impeachment as the invocation of a constitutional crisis.

When it comes to presidential scandals, is all press really good press?

As long as national borders are strictly enforced, workers at the bottom of the labor ladder will be pitted against one another.

Setting the record straight on the abolitionist's 200th birthday.

The FBI's latest probe into the foundation may seem like a political witch hunt, but there are reasons to wonder what's going on with the organization.

With the upcoming release of his crime thriller, former president Bill Clinton joins a long line of creative (and often amusingly mediocre) president-artists.

How a 20-year-old piece of legislation highlights the changing face of African-American activists.

The rifts in feminism are not new; we've just been ignoring those working to understand them.

The latest flap over her private emails as secretary of state is far from the first time she’s been accused of lacking transparency.

Hillary Clinton’s defense of her use of personal emails while she was secretary of state triggers memories of the "pink press conference."

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

A new report from The Sentencing Project assesses the damage of a Clinton-era policy.

What happens this week won't end this week. The reverberations of a shutdown will be felt for years to come.

It's mostly the younger members of Congress who are pushing for a shutdown of the federal government this week. Do they need a history lesson about what happened in the winter of 1995-96?

On why the Democratic base was (eventually) able to forgive President Clinton for his infidelity, but probably won't give the New York City mayoral hopeful the same pass.

Noah Davis talks to the democratic pollster and political strategist about the over-reliance on numbers, understanding new places, and being really intelligent.