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The 'Madman Theory' of Nuclear War Has Existed for Decades. Now, Trump Is Playing the Madman.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Trump To Display Letter From Nixon In Oval Office: Report

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Political Correctness: How The Right Invented a Phantom Enemy

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

What the Mass Deportation of Immigrants Might Look Like

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

Don’t Look to History for an Analogue to Trump’s Victory

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.
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If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populism Mean?

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?
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How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Myth of the 'Reagan Democrat'

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

'He Brutalized for You'

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

Donald Trump: Rizzo Reborn

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.
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Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

Donald Trump Meet Wong Kim Ark

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’

Are Reagan Democrats Becoming Trump Democrats?

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president
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How a 1964 Student Protest Reshaped the Fight Over the Panama Canal

How a dispute between American and Panamanian high school students over which country’s flag to fly escalated into days of violence.

We Are Living Through Regime Change

The old, postwar world is being dismantled by its American overlord.
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Antisocial Studies

As the war over American social studies classrooms heats up, the curriculum is in the crosshairs.
Collage of Trump, Maduro, with an outline of Venezuela, oil wells, and a gas pump

The Big Business of War for Oil

The attack on Venezuela and abduction of Maduro surprised everyone, except oil companies. It's not the first time the U.S. was motivated by corporate interests.
Donald Trump shaking hands with Benjamin Netanyahu.

America’s Ties to Israel Might Lead It to War With Iran

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June.