Trump Is What Historians Call a 'Transformative President'
Whatever one feels about Trump, some historians say Presidencies like his and Roosevelt's can signal a new era.
Opinion
Tariffs Based on Tendentious History Could Be Political Malpractice
Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing ...
What is the Alien Enemies Act, meant for wartime, that Trump is expected to invoke for mass deportations?
President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, reports said to give an impetus to his mass deportation ...
Trump to Invoke Wartime Authority in Chilling Deportation Move
President Trump is expected to invoke an 18th century law giving him wartime powers to deport migrants en masse. He intends ...
Opinion
Learning from the past is hard enough; it is impossible when we distort it
According to Michael Sexton in these pages, “since the Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed in 1823 by the US, it has designated both North and South America to be US spheres of influence” (“Only US and ...
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'Entire world ripping us off': Trump quotes FDR in tariff war meltdown
President Donald Trump exploded in a fiery social media rant Thursday morning, defending his tariffs with rhetoric that ...
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The Return of Spheres of Influence
The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...