Donald Trump

A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.

To some cops and their unions, the federal invasions of American cities are a chance to undercut the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.

In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling.

Discussing effective historical analogies for the second Trump administration.

The US has grown wary of long occupations. Dropping the pretense of exporting democracy, the Trump administration now seeks to force existing powers to comply.

On the US-backed coups d'état in South America.

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

Critics of Nicolás Maduro's capture would be on much stronger footing if they were originalists.

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US.

Trump has reinvented Reagan’s old attack, with one key twist.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

Washington believed that civility toward other nations was a strategy to preserve independence, not a concession.

The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.

His invasion of Venezuela and abduction of Nicolás Maduro recall U.S. imperialism of the early twentieth century—and may similarly lead to global catastrophe.

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

Before Donald Trump's takeover proposal for Gaza, another New York real estate magnate had his own plans for the region.