Donald Trump

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.

The second section of the Fourteenth Amendment offers severe penalties for menacing the right to vote—if anyone can figure out how to enforce it.

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.

After the 2020 removal of Confederate memorials, museums provide a place to confront the ugly past and find a way forward.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

Bombshell revelations won’t hurt the former president with his core supporters. We have only to look at Oliver North to know why.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

As an NRA-approved icon and the mass shooter’s weapon of choice, the AR-15 has done untold harm.

In his undelivered final speech, Kennedy warned the world against ‘voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.’

The Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of the Second Amendment threatens longstanding democratic authority to enact gun safety measures.

Time to blow the final whistle on the oppression Olympics.

At the turn of the century, two important books wrestled with the question of how a nation "conceived in liberty" should engage with the world.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the data illusion of the rags-to-riches stories.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

What kind of place was the town I grew up in?

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?