Donald Trump

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.

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

Kanye West won't win Trump black support. But it will cost West his.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.

Decades after Nixon waged war on pot, Trump is doing the some with opioids. It could make things worse.

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.