Donald Trump

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

What do the two events really have in common?

How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency.

A new book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the past and present challenges posed by authoritarianism, but misses the conditions in which it arises.

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information.

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger.

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.

Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?

Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.