Donald Trump

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 university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

The 1930 tariff bill hurt exporters and provoked other countries to enact their own tariffs as the U.S. economy grappled with the Great Depression.

A global marketplace has shaped the U.S. whiskey industry for a century, even as it brands itself distinctly American.

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

A little understood part of the New Deal.

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

He set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”.

As Democrats became the party of proceduralism, they sidestepped a crucial debate.

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.