Donald Trump

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

Undoing the politics of fear will require us to reckon with the legacies of nativism that divert our attention from the greatest threats to our health.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.

Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals offers lessons.

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

George Eliot refused to stereotype the rural working class. Her outlook would serve us well today.

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

I’ve been going back to eastern Kentucky for over a decade. Since 2016, something there has changed.

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.

What's in a name? According to the "Dictionary of American Family Names," it depends.

An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms.

The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.

Over the course of U.S. history, presidential rematches have signaled momentous political upheavals.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.