Donald Trump

Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?

Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.

Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.

Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats.

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.

"They’re eating the pets of the people that live there," former President Trump claimed — with no basis — at the first presidential debate.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy.

The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind.

Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.

It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.