Donald Trump

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

Leadership battles tell us a lot about where a party is headed.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

Democrats’ policies aim to address societal problems to make fascism and socialism less attractive.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.