Donald Trump

The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

A bad history.

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.

News organizations air lies from political figures more often than you’d think, but for very different reasons than Fox News.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.

The concept of "heathenism" may seem outmoded, but it defines race and religion in America.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

The NYT identifies the 'religious fervor in the American right' — around four decades late.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.

If the press didn’t know what to make of Miss America 1992 Carolyn Sapp, they really didn’t know what to make of domestic violence.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.