Donald Trump

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

Four books contend with the lifting of the 108-year old curse.

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.

Music continues to hold an allure for elites seeking to politicize patriotism in support of their privilege.

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.

The spectre of Dred Scott is haunting St. Louis.

Like most relationships, it’s complicated.

The football players are following in a long tradition of protest.

How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.

Blaming “bad dudes”—ignores the role of women in the white nationalist movement.

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.