Donald Trump

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.

When the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ran for president, he wasn’t seeking further glory but a policy change in religious liberty.

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.

In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

Though the cruelties of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy were unique, they were part of an American tradition of taking children from parents.