Donald Trump

But the COVID-19 pandemic exposes its weaknesses.

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

The pandemic is stress-testing two concepts Americans have historically gotten wrong.

We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.

People comparing covid-19 and AIDS may obscure more than they clarify.

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.

History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

Has Trump plunged America into another Great Depression?

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.

Citizenship used to demand sacrifice. Then we taught Americans to buy things instead.

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.

Failing upward with Oliver North.

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.