Donald Trump

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.

A new book says polarization breeds impunity from scandal. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.

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.

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.

Columbus lives on as a political and cultural symbol—hero, villain, myth—revealing how belief, not fact, shapes history.