As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence to contextualize ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the U.S. right now and a totally different period of American history. Most ...