Donald Trump

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

Keeping the Irish poor out of America helped shape our restrictive immigration policies.

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

The president's unilateral nuclear authority comes from decisions made at the start of the Atomic Age.

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.

The US-Mexico border wall is disrupting and destroying the lives of a united binational community.

The battle between "Happy Holidays" and "Merry Christmas" goes way deeper than you think.

Colin Kaepernick continues a long tradition of athletes using their celebrity to protest America's racial inequality.

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?