Donald Trump

But they didn’t always oppose ripping kids from their parents.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

The War of 1812 holds lessons about the costly error of tariffs — not the threat of Canadians.

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.

Angry that ICE is ripping families apart? Don’t just blame Trump. Blame Clinton, Bush and Obama, too.

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.

President Trump is repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression.

The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.

Half a century after the tropical craze of the 1960s, the modern age of escapism is taking cues from the past.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

It's a short song with a complicated history.

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.