Donald Trump

Past and present celebrities influence on the maintaining of antisemitism.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

Similar bars have been marshaled against Central Americans since the late 1980s — severely undermining access to asylum.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

Conservative “populism” has never been about egalitarianism, but about mobilizing support for traditional hierarchies.

The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.

The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Mills exposed postwar American power and warned of an authoritarian turn in the book, which speaks to our own moment of inequality and right-wing anger.

Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.