Donald Trump

To defend the Trump Administration, the Court ignored long-standing precedent barring Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

Trump allies push “invasion” claims to justify suspending habeas corpus, a far-right legal effort years in the making.

On the Second Red Scare and the lessons that it can provide for us today.

The Amazon founder was once the newspaper’s savior; now journalists are fleeing as the paper that brought down Nixon struggles under Trump’s second term.

Efforts to restrict immigration have long coexisted with — and even reinforced — the nation's economic reliance on Mexican laborers.

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.

Americans need to reconnect with their innate dislike of arbitrary rule.

The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

The administration is trying to neuter the redistributive and protective arms of the state, while exploiting its bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

Andrew Jackson set the standard for the most tumultuous presidential term ever — at least until now.

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.

It may sound counterintuitive, but Ken Burns’ version of U.S. history actually has quite a bit in common with Trump’s version.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil rights movement.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.