Donald Trump

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.

Decades after Nixon waged war on pot, Trump is doing the some with opioids. It could make things worse.

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.

Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.

The long road from FDR to Trump.