Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.

But they also find key differences.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.

I would know.

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

On (not) voting.