Von Drehle is the author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

David von Drehle

David Von Drehle is an editor-at-large for TIME, where he has covered politics, breaking news and the Supreme Court since 2007. He is the author of four books, including Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year, published in 2012, and Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.

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Crime

Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured

By David von DrehleApril 20, 20130

“O happy town beside the sea,” philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Boston, “whose roads lead everywhere to all.” Friday would have saddened him. Oliver Wendell Holmes preferred to call Boston “the hub of the solar …

Gay Rights

How Gay Marriage Won

By David von DrehleMarch 28, 20130

The gay and lesbian community has gone from Stonewall to the altar in two generations

States

In the Heartland, Supply-Side is Yellow Brick Road

By David von DrehleMarch 14, 20130

Arthur Laffer’s supply-side magic hits Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

Immigration

If Immigration Reform Stalls, Federal Courts Could Have A Say

By David von DrehleFeb. 19, 20130

Democrats might tweak immigration reform to make Republican opposition inevitable, and hit them in 2014 for being obstructionist. This could hurt Dreamers by giving courts enough time to void Obama’s executive order.

States

Why Illinois is Going Bankrupt

By David von DrehleJan. 18, 20130

Squeezy the Pension Python has its grip around the Land of Lincoln.

History

Lincoln to the Rescue

By David von DrehleOct. 25, 20120

What the master politician of 1862 can teach the presidential hopefuls of 2012

National Security

Portrait of a Suburb: Aurora Gets on the Map — But Not the Way It Wanted

By David von DrehleJuly 20, 20120

Diverse and aspiringly middle-class, the biggest suburb in Colorado is home to defense contractors and the Pentagon’s drone monitoring operation. Now it will be known as the town of the Batman massacre.