Donald Trump

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

To understand the right’s plans for Babbitt, look to George Shiffler.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.