Donald Trump

The oval office looks different now that President Biden is its occupant.

While Herbert Hoover was deeply critical of his successor, he put aside his differences to ensure the peaceful and democratic transition of power.

On the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late 20th century and their enduring power today.

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection.

The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we have actually been.

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.

In ACT UP, belonging was not conferred by blood. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.

The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.