JD Vance

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

The vibes right now are very "Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

It’s time to care for the community—not cleanse it.

Criticisms of women without biological children define motherhood too narrowly, as history reveals the many forms of motherhood.

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.

In 2002, Republicans attacked the patriotism of a distinguished Democratic veteran. It worked and they've kept doing it ever since.

Just about every major development in the current presidential campaign started as a television event.

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

It's misleading, invidious, and it obscures what's actually bad and scary about right-wing nationalist foreign policy.