Donald Trump

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

The Teapot Dome scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.

The United States must devise a program that addresses the root causes of migration.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.

The history of presidential campaigns shows the extent to which the language of politics remains gendered.

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

The number of detained migrant youth has reached record highs and led to lawsuits over the Trump government’s treatment of minors.

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.