Donald Trump

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

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.

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

The National Park Service announced its plan to return the refurbished statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike to a small federal park at Third and D streets NW.

The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.

Lists of great artists say more about the list-maker than the artist.

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.