Donald Trump

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

The Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.

A short history of the long war on drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”

The last American crisis over civilian-military relations ended with a general’s historic choice.

It had been home to the Office of the First Lady since the 1970s.

The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.

The former President once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt. The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is.

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

Trump’s brand of authoritarianism emerges out of New York City’s real estate industry. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani vows to curb that sector’s outsized power.

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.

Trump and his cronies’ style reflects a platform where grievance is currency and performance is power.

A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.

The Christian-right luminary built his long career on cruelty and submission.

Trump's tariffs echo centuries of global protectionism, but history and economics question their effectiveness and long-term value.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.