Donald Trump

Abandoning free trade doesn't just hurt the economy. It threatens peace and stability across the globe.

They can if they study the tobacco playbook.

Doing so might kill the next big liberal idea.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

"Removing the flag in South Carolina was one thing, but racism exists in South Carolina as policy and social practice."

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

The White House wants to reinstate the sale of horses for slaughter, but eating horse meat has always been politically treacherous.

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

It happened long before a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 

Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

Some call it "Russiagate," others "Comeygate." What are we really saying when we apply the Nixonian suffix?

Donald Trump is not the first person to gain power by questioning, undermining, and delegitimizing once-trusted institutions.

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

What historian William Appleman Williams taught us about foreign policy and the good society.

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.