Donald Trump

In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories.

With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?

The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Executive trade power has gone too far.

A new museum dedicated to Go-Go music comes with a message for both gentrifiers and lawmakers: #Don’tMuteDC.

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.

The first businessman president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to create an efficient federal government.

The long battle against Title IX.

Henry Charles Carey is arguably the most influential economist in American history.

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.

Spencerism in America.

The effort to return American government to republican principles is daunting—but the Founders’ wisdom can serve as a guide.

Those who wish to restore democratic rule, regardless of political orientation, must take it seriously.

What were we thinking, buying so many of these fragile, messy, remarkable ovals? Get used to high egg prices, it was a miracle they were low in the first place.

If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.