Donald Trump

The first businessman president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to create an efficient federal government.

The long battle against Title IX.

Henry Charles Carey is arguably the most influential economist in American history.

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.

Spencerism in America.

The effort to return American government to republican principles is daunting—but the Founders’ wisdom can serve as a guide.

Those who wish to restore democratic rule, regardless of political orientation, must take it seriously.

What were we thinking, buying so many of these fragile, messy, remarkable ovals? Get used to high egg prices, it was a miracle they were low in the first place.

If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.

Understand that if Trump succeeds the result will not be the harmless resurrection of a quaint jurisprudential artifact.

If world leaders had been clearer about the sanctions Putin would face, they might have deterred his invasion of Ukraine.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.

How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.