Donald Trump

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

The conservative media made this president, and the conservative media will keep him in office.

Of all the precedents the first president set, this is one of his most overlooked — and most important.

What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

What's the real history behind Trump's 'witch hunt' tweets?

It wasn't always this way.

The abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.