Donald Trump

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.

This year’s momentous vote strangely resembles one of the most consequential elections in American history.

A new historical study finds that Congress’s authority to investigate crime is “indispensable” to the system of checks and balances.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Political campaigns have often misunderstood Latino voters, oversimplifying their diversity and facing challenges in outreach and engagement.

The vibes right now are very "Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

Last minute disclosures or revelations can play an outsized role in the last weeks before an election.

Do pop culture interventions in presidential elections make a difference?

The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.

William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

It’s time to care for the community—not cleanse it.

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

They say there’s never been a man like Donald Trump in American politics. But there was—and we should learn from him. Look back to early-20th-century Georgia.

Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?