Donald Trump

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.

The long road from FDR to Trump.

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.

Ron Chernow’s biography reminds our 21st-century selves of the distinction between character and personality.

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

His administration has made the moon a destination, not just a pit stop, on the way to Mars.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wields enormous power and is key to President Trump's deregulatory agenda.

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

Trump's unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority. 

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.

Never before have administrations scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.