Donald Trump

A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.

Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn on David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the 1993 siege of Waco.

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.

The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

A bad history.

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.