Donald Trump

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.

Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. His former bellwether county — and museum — both hold lessons for Trump’s campaign.

All that’s past isn’t necessarily present.

The end of the big-city columnist.

Fairly applying the rule of law to powerful politicians provides the stability that enables the U.S. to thrive politically and economically.

The political upheaval of 1824 changed America. The same could happen in 2024.

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

Why our understanding of the era has been hindered by the party system model.

"I was always working on a theory of America."