Donald 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.

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

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

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

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories -- from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate -- and what they can tell us about the world today.

Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.

The government's suppression of press freedom was a major component of its attempts to build support for the war effort

The Trump Administration can - and should - learn from that moment.

In 1983, the U.S. simulated a nuclear war with Russia—and narrowly avoided starting a real one. We might not be so lucky next time.

We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.

Until the 1940s, Jews in America were considered a separate race. Their journey to whiteness has important lessons.