Donald Trump

Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the vote has a familiar ring. It evokes an egregious example of election fraud in the 1890s.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

President Trump has called on supporters, including law enforcement officers, to monitor election sites. Voter intimidation tactics have a long history.

The collapse of the Republican Party.

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

A Trump-Biden transition is sure to be scary. But it’d be hard to beat Buchanan-Lincoln.

A political history of the present moment.

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

Political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new.

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.

That’s the lesson of Dwight Eisenhower’s serious heart attack.

A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.