Donald Trump

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

The 1988 presidential primary showed it wasn't always like this — and helped guide the GOP to where it is now.

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

First, the GOP became the party of tax cuts and now it won't touch entitlements — which makes a balanced budget nearly impossible.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.

From birthright freedom to birthright citizenship.

The AR-15 thrives in times of tension and tragedy. This is how it came to dominate the marketplace – and loom so large in the American psyche.

Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement?

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

How transphobia has been a consistent liability for Republicans, and why the right refuses to give it up.

The decline of the John Birch Society offers possible strategies for containing the MAGA movement.