Comey's firing was Trump's nuclear option on Russia probe by Julian Zelizer Trump has stunned the political world once again by issuing the orders to remove one of the most important figures in this entire investigation.

Trump's Tuesday Night Massacre Brings the Watergate Comparisons Full Circle by Kevin M. Kruse While it's easy to reach for Richard Nixon as the closest point of comparison, Trump's firing of James Comey parallels Watergate in a couple key ways.

Don’t Know Much About History by Michael Winship Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That's dangerous for him and all the rest of us.

Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is toxic: Psychologist by John Gartner Mental health professionals have a 'duty to warn' about a leader who may be unfit to serve.

America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust by Andrea Pitzer When White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested on April 11 that atrocities carried out under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were in some way worse than those of Adolf Hitler, his statement placed him firmly in the bosom of a fine American tradition.

The American Revolution Was a Great Idea by Mark Hemingway The New Yorker questions if it really was.

What Trump Gets Wrong About NAFTA by Jefferson Cowie The deal is not the source of America's problems.

How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby by Katherine Mooney When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921.

Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916. by George F. Will As a 1916 billionaire, you would be materially worse off than a 2017 middle-class American.

How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars by John W. Dower When others act irrationally and violently they’re crazy. Not so when we do it.