Donald Trump

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.

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

It all might have been different without one night in 1977. A scandal followed—and, five decades later, no one agrees on what happened.

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.

Descended from Jewish immigrants, Stephen Miller's project is to close the country to people like his ancestors.

A refresher on the original intent of John Quincy Adams's 1823 policy statement in the wake of the recent announcement of the "Trump Corollary."

Reflections on the book and lessons for the present environmental movement.

Hollywood has seen this movie before. Entertainment oligopolies are bigger and more anticompetitive than ever.

From Nixon to Trump.

The liberal jeremiad warns that democracy is fragile, institutions must be defended, and that vigilance is the price of liberty.

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.

The National Park Service announced its plan to return the refurbished statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike to a small federal park at Third and D streets NW.

The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.

Lists of great artists say more about the list-maker than the artist.

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.

How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

It was founded 250 years ago today—and, oddly, was promptly ordered to attack what is today its biggest base.