Donald Trump

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.

How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.

Circumstances in which people are feeling extreme disorientation are potent breeding grounds for people who are willing to exploit it in moments of crisis.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

Reformers in the Republican Party had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

It’s Fort Bragg again. So why are Confederate heritage groups so mad?

Presidents can't shutter an agency Congress created by statute. Only Congress has this power.

That’s not how separation of powers works under the U.S. Constitution.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.