How Trump Can Ensure Democratic Dominance for Generations by Michael Kazin It happened before, 90 years ago, when the GOP cracked down hard on immigrants. Republicans never recovered.

Inside the Salem Witch Trials by Stacy Schiff Diabolical doings in a Puritan village.

Could a Supreme Court justice be president? by Lewis L. Gould Bill Kristol has another bright idea to free the Republican Party from the looming prospect of a Donald Trump presidential candidacy. Why not, he inquires, Justice Samuel Alito from the Supreme Court?

What’s really at stake when a school closes? by Jelani Cobb Jamaica High School, in Queens, was once the largest high school in the United States. But after a hundred and twenty-two years, the school was closing; the class of 2014, which had just twenty-four members, would be the last.

Before Trump or Fiorina, There Was Wendell Willkie by Michael Beschloss Only once in American history has a major political party granted its prize to someone whose principal qualification was to have served as a corporate chief executive.

The Surge Fallacy by Peter Beinart Having misunderstood the Iraq War, U.S. Republicans are taking a dangerously hawkish turn on foreign policy.

Kissinger’s 4 lessons by Niall Ferguson Kissinger was never just a realist, as a review of his early life shows.

The Red-Baiting of Lena Horne by John Meroney At the height of her career, the beautiful young performer accidentally stumbled into a power struggle between Hollywood communists and McCarthyites.

These candidates can’t take a joke: Inside the baffling humorlessness of presidential politics by Jonathan Zimmerman Self-deprecating humor used to be an invaluable tool for connecting with voters. Now? Not so much.

An Error of Era? by Scott McLemee Review of Jacques Le Goff, "Must We Divide History Into Periods?"