Donald Trump

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

They say there’s never been a man like Donald Trump in American politics. But there was—and we should learn from him. Look back to early-20th-century Georgia.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?

Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.

A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.

Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats.

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.