Donald Trump

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

A warning about the ways we compare Donald Trump to atrocities in history.

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

Many compare the rise of "Trumpism" to that of 1930s Fascism. More worthwhile might be an examination of antifascist resistance.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.