Donald Trump

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

Bruce Kuklick traces the meaning of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

The first barbed wire border fences were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for over a century.

After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?

For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

A photographer excavates personal history through reconstruction of Adams's World War II photographs of Japanese Americans.

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Scholars and pundits are suddenly interested in the section disqualifying insurrectionists from offices. But text and history don't offer clear answers.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary. Congress is still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.