Donald Trump

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

Kanye West won't win Trump black support. But it will cost West his.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.

Decades after Nixon waged war on pot, Trump is doing the some with opioids. It could make things worse.

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.

Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.