Donald Trump

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

To Heather Cox Richardson, the battle for our history is the battle for our democracy. And we may be nearing the endgame.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.

Richard Nixon decided a powerful new medium should appeal to the marketplace, not to citizens.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

The 1988 presidential primary showed it wasn't always like this — and helped guide the GOP to where it is now.

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

First, the GOP became the party of tax cuts and now it won't touch entitlements — which makes a balanced budget nearly impossible.