Donald Trump

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

Discussing effective historical analogies for the second Trump administration.

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

Critics of Nicolás Maduro's capture would be on much stronger footing if they were originalists.

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

Trump has reinvented Reagan’s old attack, with one key twist.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

Washington believed that civility toward other nations was a strategy to preserve independence, not a concession.

The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.

His invasion of Venezuela and abduction of Nicolás Maduro recall U.S. imperialism of the early twentieth century—and may similarly lead to global catastrophe.

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

Before Donald Trump's takeover proposal for Gaza, another New York real estate magnate had his own plans for the region.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

For years, the U.S. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee reviewed ideas for commemorative coins marking America’s 250th anniversary.

In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.