BOLD EXPERIMENT
The U.S. has always been a work in progress, but since the Revolution, we have always believed in equality. Now Trump makes us doubt any notion of shared values.
Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World and, most recently, Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom, a History of the American Revolution. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
Cities
Russell Shorto examines the dawning of one of the darkest periods in the history of the Dutch metropole.