Donald Trump

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

The American Legion was a forerunner to today's American nationalist organizations.

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

A political usage guide for a feckless commentariat.

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

The Teapot Dome scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.