Donald Trump

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.

American photojournalism has always been entangled with race and religion.

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

As a historian, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the fallout from Watts and other rebellions.

Could Donald Trump really rival James Buchanan?

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.