Donald Trump

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

A little understood part of the New Deal.

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

He set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”.

As Democrats became the party of proceduralism, they sidestepped a crucial debate.

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.

In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories.

With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?

The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Executive trade power has gone too far.

A new museum dedicated to Go-Go music comes with a message for both gentrifiers and lawmakers: #Don’tMuteDC.

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.