Isaac Chotiner

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

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

A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for Congolese independence.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

The New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll on the humanitarian catastrophe that is now likely to engulf Afghan civilians, and how Joe Biden is shifting the blame.

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.

The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.

For hundreds of years, false theories of “innate difference and deficit in black bodies” have shaped American responses to disease.

The historian Frank M. Snowden discusses the politics of restricting travel during epidemics and more.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.