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Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

Explore origin and destination totals of migrants from 233 countries between 1990 and 2015.

Why the Clinton Administration is to blame for creating a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants.

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

White supremacy and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

Remember Perot?

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

A brief history of Puerto Rico's status and relationship to the United States.

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

160 years ago, a similarly fractured GOP took months to settle on a speaker.