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.

Trump and his cronies’ style reflects a platform where grievance is currency and performance is power.

A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.

The Christian-right luminary built his long career on cruelty and submission.

Trump's tariffs echo centuries of global protectionism, but history and economics question their effectiveness and long-term value.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.

Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests.

Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

Trump mixes restoration with revolution—his reactionary modernism wooed Silicon Valley, but for everyone else, it signals looming repression.

The announcement comes just four days before the Army’s multimillion dollar parade in Washington.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

To defend the Trump Administration, the Court ignored long-standing precedent barring Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

On the Second Red Scare and the lessons that it can provide for us today.

The Amazon founder was once the newspaper’s savior; now journalists are fleeing as the paper that brought down Nixon struggles under Trump’s second term.

Efforts to restrict immigration have long coexisted with — and even reinforced — the nation's economic reliance on Mexican laborers.

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.