Donald Trump

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

A warning about the ways we compare Donald Trump to atrocities in history.

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

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.