Donald Trump

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

To understand the right’s plans for Babbitt, look to George Shiffler.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.