Donald Trump

Understand that if Trump succeeds the result will not be the harmless resurrection of a quaint jurisprudential artifact.

If world leaders had been clearer about the sanctions Putin would face, they might have deterred his invasion of Ukraine.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.

Circumstances in which people are feeling extreme disorientation are potent breeding grounds for people who are willing to exploit it in moments of crisis.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

Reformers in the Republican Party had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

It’s Fort Bragg again. So why are Confederate heritage groups so mad?

Presidents can't shutter an agency Congress created by statute. Only Congress has this power.

That’s not how separation of powers works under the U.S. Constitution.