Roundup Top 10!

No, Trump is not another Jackson by Sean Wilentz If anything, Trump is more like John C. Calhoun.

When Nixon’s Henchmen Plotted to Assassinate a Journalist with LSD by Gil Troy For those who think the future of press freedom is facing unprecedented challenges, a reminder of the time Nixon aides hatched a plot to kill a troublesome journalist.

The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump by Roger Cohen Americans will have to fight for their civilization and the right to ask why.

What’s the method in Trump’s madness? by E.J. Dionne Is Trumpism a scam? And if so, whom is Donald Trump scamming?

Protests are one thing. Voting is another by Jonathan Zimmerman Last November, only 58% of eligible Americans voted.

One way Trump is different from European nationalists by Brian Porter-Szücs When comparing Europe and America, we frequently overlook differences that hide inside similarities.

Racial Progress Is Real. But So Is Racist Progress. by Ibram X. Kendi What if President Trump does not represent a step back, but a step forward?

Trump’s Washington Wedding by Jill Lepore An American Inauguration is like a wedding: the President is the groom, the people his bride. Donald Trump is about to pledge his troth. It didn’t always work this way, and, really, it shouldn’t. Washington isn’t Vegas.

Where It All Went Wrong by Max Boot Wary of repeating what he perceived to be Bush’s mistake of over-interventionism, Obama instead veered toward extreme non-interventionism, with the exception of Libya and Afghanistan, where he imposed such severe limitations on American action that it made success impossible to achieve.

Obama Shouldn’t Go Quietly by Robert Dallek Presidents are supposed to slip off the stage, take up hobbies and charities, let their successors have a go at it. But that hasn’t always been the case.