Donald Trump

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.

The promise and perils of left populism.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

When creating ethical immigration policy, it is important to consider the history of U.S. relations with countries like Honduras.

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.