Yoni Appelbaum

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

Congress must now act, not just to remove Trump—but to ensure that no president ever risks behaving in this way again.

A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?

The president would do well to take his own advice.

The special counsel has concluded he can neither charge nor clear the president. Only Congress can now resolve the allegations against him.

President Trump is unfit for the office he holds.

Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.

This was at the same jamboree where Trump told thousands of teenage boys about a hot New York party.

Twentieth-century American presidents lionized the Confederate general. Now the tide is shifting.

As participation in civic life has dwindled, so has public faith in the country’s system of government.

The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.

The president spent Sunday morning at Mar-a-Lago, watching Fox News and giving voice to his resentments.

The existence of extremists like Tony Hovater doesn’t require extraordinary explanations—they stand in a long American tradition.

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.

A multi-ethnic democracy requires grappling honestly with the past—and recognizing the symbols of the Confederacy for what they are.

President Trump claims a top Scout official told him that his “was the greatest speech that was ever made to them.” The Scouts deny the call was made.

The president addressed the quadrennial gathering like a campaign rally—talking to a group devoted to service as if it valued self-interest.

A Stanford professor argues that it’s largely not—but that it could be reformed to promote equality, rather than undermine it.

Adam Hamilton takes on controversial social issues from the pulpit, challenging his politically divided congregation to find common ground.

Richard Haass, one of the few foreign-policy experts the president says he respects, had some harsh words for the administration's early stumbles.

Why the president, who appears allergic to the logic of bureaucracy, keeps getting defeated by that humblest of technologies, the office memorandum

If the president obstructed justice, inexperience will not work as a defense.

The former FBI director’s insistence on setting the record straight may have cost Clinton the election and Comey his job—and now it’s costing Trump.

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.

Donald Trump flaunted his elastic conception of truth in an interview with Time—but he may yet learn that facts are stubborn things.

A day after the Trump charges “Nixon/Watergate” level misconduct by his predecessor, the administration says that “neither the White House nor the president will comment further.”

Why did Trump’s choice for national-security adviser perform so well in the war on terror, only to find himself forced out of the Defense Intelligence Agency?

A conversation with a longtime media and advertising executive about how the president-elect sold himself to the public

The president-elect’s insistence that the public interest and his private interests are aligned recalls the creed of Tammany Hall.

Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes.

The Party of Lincoln's nominee returned to the site of his greatest speech, to attack the faith in democratic government that Lincoln so carefully fostered.

Two ways the candidate charges this election is “rigged” are absurd. The third is absurdly dangerous.

A candidate who accepted the nomination to chants of “Lock her up!” crosses a dangerous line.

The conservative, Christian voters backing the Republican nominee are looking for someone who can defend them, not someone who embodies their values.

The belief in a common purpose that long defined America’s civil religion was strikingly absent on Monday night.

Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination in Philadelphia, ratifying a promise made there 240 years before—that all are created equal.

Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values.

Four decades after he asked his wife to set aside her own ambitions, he asked Americans to return her to the White House in her own right.

The First Lady took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention, and united a divided hall.