Donald Trump

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?

White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.

Not directly. But it's more complicated than you think.

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.

The themes of his UN General Assembly speech have deep roots in U.S. history.

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.