Donald Trump

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.

The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.

His invasion of Venezuela and abduction of Nicolás Maduro recall U.S. imperialism of the early twentieth century—and may similarly lead to global catastrophe.

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

For years, the U.S. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee reviewed ideas for commemorative coins marking America’s 250th anniversary.

In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.

Declassified records begin to detail the U.S. negotiating strategy in the historic accord.

The Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.

A short history of the long war on drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

More than 75 years ago, one veteran fought the U.S. government’s right-wing blacklists. Today, we should learn from his example.

How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”

The last American crisis over civilian-military relations ended with a general’s historic choice.

It had been home to the Office of the First Lady since the 1970s.

The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.

The former President once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt. The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is.

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.