Yet this comparison, far from proving that Trump might reconstruct the nation through sheer will, highlights the limits of what he can accomplish. An executive strongman is scary and can do much ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on Monday, Jan. 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the only child of James and Sara Roosevelt. His early education was provided ...

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson of the United States House of Representatives delivered a virtuoso speech to Britain’s Parliament on Jan. 22. Johnson addressed the British legislators the day after ...

In many of the international news outlets around the world, you will find a section devoted to covering current events in the United States. Aside from just including it in their international ...

With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a ...

Every day is important, holding an opportunity for a new adventure, an exciting event. Each day in history holds something ...

Presidents have found second terms worse than their first. Even the oft-unprecedented Trump may not be immune.

Prompted by the horrors experienced by civilians during World War II, the newly constituted United Nations decided to draft a ...

The Harvard political scientist says the real problem is a weak culture of debate on campuses, not ideological diversity.

Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then the answer is a ...

Many contemporary observers fail to appreciate the real nature of NATO as a force created to replace the United Nations when reality required action.

At least so far, President Trump has managed to bring along even those conservative supporters who are skeptical of foreign interventions.