Donald Trump

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?

The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.

Democrats don’t think America lives up to liberal democratic ideals. Republicans don’t think Americans need to.

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

What accounts for white tribalism?

The outrage over family separation creates an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.

But they didn’t always oppose ripping kids from their parents.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

The War of 1812 holds lessons about the costly error of tariffs — not the threat of Canadians.

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

Angry that ICE is ripping families apart? Don’t just blame Trump. Blame Clinton, Bush and Obama, too.

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.