JD Vance

Justin B. Wymer knows a snake when he sees one.

MAGA has been a largely white movement of non-urban people who seem to think that people unlike them are scary and that there is only safety in homogeneity.

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a map.

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

Capturing the 1968 DNC.

J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.

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.