Donald Trump

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

It’s beginning to feel like the 1980s all over again.

Joyce Chaplin on the malevolence of American goodwill.

Jenny Hendrix on the 'Naughty Nineties,' the decade in which America rediscovered sex.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

Keeping the Irish poor out of America helped shape our restrictive immigration policies.

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

The president's unilateral nuclear authority comes from decisions made at the start of the Atomic Age.

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.