Donald Trump

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

The bullshit, the truth… and Trump.

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.

It's not as new as it seems.

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

They're the hunters, not the hunted.

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

Restricting the press backfires politically.

The origins of the politics of “reverse discrimination."

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

Four books contend with the lifting of the 108-year old curse.

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.