Donald Trump

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.

Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?

On history, race, and guns in America.

How Consoler-in-Chiefs respond to senseless gun violence.

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.

A preview of Trumpism in 2010 protests against a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.

After Democrats lost in 1876, they set about investigating the new Republican president — only for everything to backfire.

America's sense of religious nationalism was forged in the same fires that ignited the profoundly secular French Revolution.

Our launch protocols were designed to bypass checks and balances for a quick retaliation.

The anti-Semitic seeds of its use were firmly planted 75 years ago.

Obama's desire to “look forward” on torture has enabled Trump to look backward in his appointment of a new CIA director.

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

The GOP was once the party of protectionism, while the Democrats led the way on free trade.

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.

How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic.

Three past conflicts tell a very different story.

A republic needs a legislature that can handle such tasks. We don’t have one.

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.