Donald Trump

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?

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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

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.

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

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

A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

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.

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."

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

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.

Ken Burns’s new documentary unpacks the Revolutionary War—and explains why history doesn’t repeat, even if human nature never changes.