Donald Trump

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.

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.