Donald Trump

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.

It happened during Andrew Jackson’s administration, with fatal consequences.

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.

Executive power and the Constitution.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

The 45th president, no student of history, marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.