Donald Trump

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.

New books on the War in Afghanistan endeavor to tell the realities of occupation and the "war on terror."

Neither side of the border has seen the benefits it was promised.

In the fight over keeping Trump’s name on the ballot, the 2000 decision is a warning but not a precedent.

Belknap’s downfall was his decision to abuse his authority to appoint “sutlers” or civilian merchants who ran trading posts that served military outposts.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.

Politicians from both sides used to agree on immigration policy. What happened?

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

Bruce Kuklick traces the meaning of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

The first barbed wire border fences were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for over a century.