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The GOP Is Fast Undoing the Good Deeds of Richard Nixon

by Ronald L. Feinman

Not much of his positive legacy will be left by the time they’re through.

Jefferson Vs. Trump: How Their Two Inaugurations Differed

by John Boles

Both represented change. Both came to power after a nasty election. But Trump chose to be divisive.

Is America Going the Way of Norse Greenland?

by Fred Zilian

Like the Norse, the Trump administration is showing indifference to long-term interests.

What Historians Are Saying on Social Media About Trump's First 100 Days

Annette Gordon Reed, Max Boot, Simon Schama, Ron Radosh, David Greenberg, and more. 

What’s Impressive About Trump’s First 100 Days Is the Opposition He’s Inspired

by John Dickson

When FDR set the standard for 100 days of accomplishment, he did so in the face of an acute crisis. The crisis facing the country now is the president’s doing.

Berkeley HAS Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

by Richard L. Cravatts

What Berkeley has done is emblematic of a serious problem.

Berkeley Has NOT Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

by Robert Cohen  

Her claims are specious.

Trump’s Hundred Days Are a Disappointment

by Kathryn Smith

No one expected him to approach FDR’s record, but his debut has been stunningly mediocre.

Trump Is Right About One Thing

by Louis A. Ferleger and Jonathan R. Zatlin

Some of our trading partners aren’t playing fair. Case in point: Germany.  

What Conservative Historians Are Saying about Trump's First 100 Days

by Charles Dewey

We asked: Victor Davis Hanson, Daniel Pipes, Robert Merry, Brad Birzer, Paul Gottfried, and Larry Schweikart.

Who Else Is Trump Like?

by Ronald L. Feinman

Presidents John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, two previous presidents who faced impeachment.

Trump Vs. Madison. Madison’s Winning.

by Donald J. Fraser

The parchment barriers Madison and the other Founding Fathers installed in the Constitution are helping check Trump’s overreaching.

Six Strategies To Revitalize the Democratic Party

by Bruce W. Dearstyne

What Democrats today can learn from the Democrats of the 1950s.

What Did George Washington Think About Nepotism?

by Cassandra Good

Early on he made a decision to award offices only on the basis of merit.

For Whom the Bell Tolls? It Tolls for Us.

by William R. Polk

“What is important now, I think, is to develop a clear strategy to employ in the coming four years.”

More than 2,000 Years Ago Sophocles Wrote About a Leader Who Contravenes Civil Norms

by Robert Garland

It didn’t end well.

Borking Started Before Bork

by Justin P. Coffey

The borking of nominees to the Supreme Court began when Nixon tried to put Clement Haynsworth on the Supreme Court.

Trump V. Kennedy

by Walter G. Moss

Their different vision of the role of the arts and humanities.

Donald Trump Is Really Like Andrew Jackson in this One Way

by Richard J. Morris

Both men won the presidency in part through racist rhetoric and actions.

Did Donald Trump Win Because He Had a Better Slogan?

by Donne Levy

Probably not. But what history shows is that presidential slogans are snapshots capturing the desires, aspirations, and sometimes fears of the American people.