Donald Trump

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Scholars and pundits are suddenly interested in the section disqualifying insurrectionists from offices. But text and history don't offer clear answers.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary. Congress is still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

To Heather Cox Richardson, the battle for our history is the battle for our democracy. And we may be nearing the endgame.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.

Richard Nixon decided a powerful new medium should appeal to the marketplace, not to citizens.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.