Donald Trump

Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information.

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger.

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.

Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?

Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

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