Donald Trump

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.

Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?

The long history of athletes taking a stand for racial justice.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

Our concept of national security is so broad it can encompass virtually anything.

George Washington knew the perils of letting scandals linger.

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.

A critique of a recent open letter by members of the foreign policy intelligentsia.

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

The history of eugenics in the Progressive Age.

The debate among American Christians over globalism and nationalism is nothing new — rather, it has been going on for decades.