Donald Trump

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.

It happened during Andrew Jackson’s administration, with fatal consequences.

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.

Executive power and the Constitution.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

The 45th president, no student of history, marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?

White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.