Donald Trump

How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

It was founded 250 years ago today—and, oddly, was promptly ordered to attack what is today its biggest base.

Columbus lives on as a political and cultural symbol—hero, villain, myth—revealing how belief, not fact, shapes history.

The second Trump administration has undone the division between political and economic migrants. Did it make sense to separate them to begin with?

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

Reflections on Harper's Ferry amid a government shutdown.

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?

Blaming video games for violence saves Americans from having to grapple with deeper, harder to solve societal problems.

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.

To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.

Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

How Samuel Francis wrote the recipe for MAGA.

College football’s NIL era has freed athletes but fueled chaos, soaring costs, and fan backlash.

Redford’s legacy as an environmental activist and his 1992 film "Sneakers" reveal his foresight on climate, politics, and surveillance.

Donald Trump's quest to acquire Greenland has a precedent in US Cold War history. We should consider it a cautionary tale.

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.

Pancho Villa’s death reveals how the border blurs the relationship between Mexico and the United States.

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