Donald Trump

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.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.