We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

One of the most vexing political questions throughout American history has been the role and importance of the vice president. Originally, the vice president was little more than a backup in case the ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Inauguration Day occurs every four years after the U.S. presidential election when the president-elect and ... John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Johnson. Trump was the first to ...

Trump identifies with Jackson on many levels. As a man and a leader, he likes the brash, confrontational, hypermasculine, lionlike attitude that characterized the seventh president. Jackson pushed ...

Others, including President Martin Van Buren, tried and failed to return to ... Biden took it in 2021, and Trump will retake it this year. The U.S. Constitution states the terms of the president ...

McKinley, the 25th president, was mild-mannered ... below even undistinguished or failed presidents such as Chester Arthur, Martin Van Buren, Rutherford Hayes, and Grover Cleveland.

Last month, President Joe Biden ... first to do so in over 150 years, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Johnson did not ...