Donald Trump

Using Murray Rothbard vs. Sam Francis to understand the next administration.

The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here’s how.

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?

Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.

As a congressman, Davy Crockett found ways to navigate populist upheaval and maintain his own independence.

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.