Donald Trump

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

The story of the Bald Knobbers is a terrifying parable about what happens when government fails and violence reigns.

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.

Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society's attempts to remove free blacks from the US.

The lessons of Japanese interment for policy makers today.

The history of immigrants in the U.S. teaches that no amount of assimilation will protect you when an alien requires conjuring.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

Today's debate over sanctuary cities embodies a much longer debate in America over federalism.

Trump may block entry to foreigners who need public benefits—a proposal rooted in 19th-century laws targeting poor immigrants.

In light of President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, we take a look at larger immigration trends.

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's important to remember why America welcomes refugees.

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?

Many compare the rise of "Trumpism" to that of 1930s Fascism. More worthwhile might be an examination of antifascist resistance.