Donald Trump

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

The bullshit, the truth… and Trump.

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.

It's not as new as it seems.

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

They're the hunters, not the hunted.

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

Restricting the press backfires politically.

The origins of the politics of “reverse discrimination."

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

Four books contend with the lifting of the 108-year old curse.

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.

Music continues to hold an allure for elites seeking to politicize patriotism in support of their privilege.

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.