Donald Trump

President Trump is repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression.

The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.

Half a century after the tropical craze of the 1960s, the modern age of escapism is taking cues from the past.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

It's a short song with a complicated history.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

The conservative media made this president, and the conservative media will keep him in office.