Donald Trump

President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.

The nativist activist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.

The story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.

America won its freedom thanks to strong alliances.

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.

"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

In a new book, Lisa Duggan spotlights the Randian spirit of what she calls the “Neoliberal Theater of Cruelty.”

Is Trump's power as president becoming just what the Founders feared?

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.