Donald Trump

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

It’s not whom you’d want to get a beer with, but whom you’d want to watch getting a beer.

A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.

Economists and Democrats dismiss Trump’s tariffs talk at their peril.

The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.

Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.

Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.

American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. tried America First. This philosophy helped lead to World War II.

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

A new California bill would commemorate 'a dark part of our American history' known as the Mexican 'repatriation' of the 1930s.

What the scholarship on biraciality tells us about politics now.

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.