Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

What the scholarship on biraciality tells us about politics now.

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.

The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.

Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results.

But they also find key differences.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.