Donald Trump

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

How a decades-long movement helped the far-right fringe gain control of the GOP.

American innocence, the possession of history, and January 6, 2021.

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

Florida’s move to silence expert criticism of its disenfranchisement campaign echoes its Redemption-era assault on civil rights.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.

Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.

Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.

Trump tried to exploit flaws that were embedded in the law from the start.

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.