Donald Trump

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

Why we should resist hero-worshipping Ukraine’s president.

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."

Balding has been the constant scourge of man since the beginning of time, and for millennia, our best solution was the comb-over.

Why the American war was destined for catastrophe and tragedy from the start.

The importance of an unambiguous report that cannot be weaponized by Trump supporters.

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

Why can’t America see that?

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

College student essays from 1961 underscore why our current trajectory could be devastating.

Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.