Even a somewhat informed observer might wonder why President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who control all three branches of government and both houses ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

MAGA American among us must admit: Donald Trump holds sway over our times. Having dominated our politics for eight years, and installed to dominate it for four more, he is on a course to change ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War. Historians trace ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

Washington’s birthday – also lovingly called Presidents’ Day – a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king ... Later, he joined delegates from the states in presiding over the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia – ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War.

A great and confident nation that judges solely by merit welcomes immigrants with open arms. A weak, craven and cosseted ...