Donald Trump

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

A closer look at the character’s history shows that the latest movie is true to his past.

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."

JFK's presidential win in 1960 offers a guide for how Democrats can rebound in 2025.

Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.

Both Trump and Cleveland employed the rhetoric of worthiness and efficiency, anti-fraud and anti-corruption, as justifications for their austerity measures.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.

Long before the new detention facility in Florida, the reptile has featured in the fantasies of Southern racists.

On Richard Hofstadter and the current assault on academia.

On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.

Revisiting history shows that violence and constitutional disputes are nothing new in US politics.

The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.

Lawmakers knew the Fourteenth Amendment would apply to the children of immigrants.

Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.

National security governance, then and now.

How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.

To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.