Jill Lepore

As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question:…

Colorado removed Trump from the ballot, and the Supreme Court will soon hear the case. Historians Jill Lepore and David Blight, who support Colorado’s decision,…

While we await oral argument in Trump v. Anderson — the U.S. Supreme Court case that will evaluate the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to exclude…

An article by Jill Lepore: “Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929.

Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. In her…

An article by Jill Lepore: Jefferson Davis, the half-blind ex-President of the Confederate States of America, leaned on a cane as he hobbled into a…

In a country where the search for common ground is increasingly elusive, many Americans can agree on this: They believe the political system is broken…

Our guest Jill Lepore is a writer with an amazing gift for drawing connections between the historical and the contemporary. She connects dots like no…

An article by Jill Lepore: This month, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, alleging that its denunciation of X—the A.D.L. had accused the…

An article by Jill Lepore: In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the…

The concept of a deadline is a complicated one for Jill Lepore. In addition to the obvious meaning — her new book, “The Deadline,” is…

In 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. I…

An op-ed by Jill Lepore: Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate independence, but it might be more significant, more pregnant with meaning, to celebrate amendment…

An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…

President Warren G. Harding was in danger of facing criminal charges in 1921 in the Teapot Dome bribery scandal, but he died in office first.

An article by Jill Lepore: The Government Publishing Office’s eight-hundred-and-forty-five-page report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States…