Donald Trump

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.

The promise and perils of left populism.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.