Donald Trump

Andrew Jackson set the standard for the most tumultuous presidential term ever — at least until now.

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.

It may sound counterintuitive, but Ken Burns’ version of U.S. history actually has quite a bit in common with Trump’s version.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil rights movement.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

The first time a president withheld funds for something approved by Congress, it led to the Impoundment Control Act. We’ll soon find out if that law has teeth.

The president says he wants to be peacemaker—but his heroes were warmongers.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

Though it may seem like a new topic of concern, the glaciated landscape of Greenland has floated in and out of American politics for decades.

Donald Trump’s model of political leadership? The cigar-chomping, baseball-bat swinging Meade Esposito.

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 

The impact can linger not just for years but decades.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

Trump, Xi Jinping, and the tariffs.

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems.

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

The Constitution is absolutely clear on this point, but will that matter?

Grover Cleveland enthusiasts aren’t thrilled that Donald Trump won a nonconsecutive presidential term.