Donald Trump

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.

He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

"Why could that one not have been worked out?"

How do Trump's first 100 days measure up?

The once-glamorous casinos and hotels have become a gilded ghost town.

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

Trump has called Andrew Jackson a "military hero and genius and a beloved president."

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

A smooth forehead suggests a hard heart.

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.

In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S.