Donald Trump

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

Two different accounts from former Democratic Party insiders about the “giant U-turn” from postwar prosperity to the polarization and inequality of today.

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

One of the most famous episodes of school desegregation was actually just the starting point for a half-century struggle.

Mamdani’s NYC mayoral rise revives debates over Democratic fusionism, echoing 1890s Populist struggles with establishment power.

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform is back on display at West Point's library.

Louis Ludlow’s war referendum amendment was the high-water mark of American antiwar populism.

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

As Bruce Springsteen’s "Born to Run" turns 50, its most underrated track deserves some love.

Both presidents have records as avid deregulators of environmental rules for industry, but Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on science go in a different direction.

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.

DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.