Donald Trump

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

What happened in Virginia was not the culminating battle of this conflict. It’s likely a tragic preface to more of the same.

Make America reality-based again.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"

It took well over a century for the office of the attorney general to accrue power and independence. Trump could blow that all up.

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

What we can learn about the current moment from Congress' efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson.

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.

He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.