Alexander Hamilton

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.

Were the founders really warning us about Trump, or were they just playing politics, too?

Projected to earn $1 billion and earning Tony-Award glory, 'Hamilton' the musical is still going strong in backyards and classrooms across the country.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

How the hit musical allows those who have been left out of the story to claim the narrative of America as their own.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.

Plus: How George Washington almost ruined his own exit from the national stage.

The signs that precede the crumbling of American political parties and the creation of new ones.

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

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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