Donald Trump

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

Democrats’ policies aim to address societal problems to make fascism and socialism less attractive.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.