Donald Trump

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.

"They’re eating the pets of the people that live there," former President Trump claimed — with no basis — at the first presidential debate.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy.

The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind.

Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, raising anti-communist fervor and showing how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.

Why the far right embraces foreign tyrants.

Is this America?

Vice presidential nominees weren't tasked with flinging mud until the last 40 years.

The signs that precede the crumbling of American political parties and the creation of new ones.

Donald Trump supporters run their version of the original dog-whistle attack ad against Kamala Harris. Here’s the history.

John Ganz offers a whirlwind tour of the cranks, conservatives, and con artists who helped remake the American right at the turn of the 21st century.

It has suddenly become popular to cast NATO as the first benign military alliance in history, without concealed politics.

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?

Caught between steel mills, suburbs and a hard place, the 15,000-acre site is a fantasia of biodiversity—and a case study for hard-fought conservation.

What would-be killers of the US commander in chief have in common is that they aren’t fervent ideologues; they’re outcasts.

It’s difficult to see how these profound antipathies and fears will dissipate soon through any normal political processes.