Donald Trump

What a long-dead, cartoonishly corrupt Texas bureaucrat can tell us about the nature of immigration enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico divide.

What would-be killers of the US commander in chief have in common is that they aren’t fervent ideologues; they’re outcasts.

Kushner was a top official in a Trump administration that sharply restricted immigration and refugee admissions. His grandparents were Holocaust refugees.

Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?

It’s difficult to see how these profound antipathies and fears will dissipate soon through any normal political processes.

It's misleading, invidious, and it obscures what's actually bad and scary about right-wing nationalist foreign policy.

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.

The failed assassination of Donald Trump might not have any lasting effect on the election or politics in general.

Charting the history of a TV phenomenon.

In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment.

Many recoil at the thought of stronger political parties. But revitalized parties could be exactly what our ailing democracy needs.

As Cornel West is receiving ballot access help from Republicans, 20 years ago Al Sharpton’s campaign for president was largely orchestrated by Roger Stone.

During Japanese-American incarceration, what happened to mixed-race families and individuals?

The rise of the right remade the GOP—and fundamentally changed how parties operated in American politics.

If it weren’t for the young urban professionals of the 1980s, we’d never have MAGA.

How one activist helped turn evangelical women into the backbone of right-wing conservatism.

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

Undoing the politics of fear will require us to reckon with the legacies of nativism that divert our attention from the greatest threats to our health.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.