Donald Trump

The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.

Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results.

But they also find key differences.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.

I would know.

A controversial historical claim grounds MAGA evangelicalism's embrace of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

On (not) voting.

The Insurrection Act is a nuclear bomb hidden in the United States code, giving presidents unimaginable emergency power. No President has abused it. Yet.