With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, ...

Influenced by both an inner circle and throngs of fervid supporters, second-term presidents hear the word “mandate” and ...

During his campaign, Trump said he wants to get rid of virtually all Biden administration regulations intended to cut carbon ...

If there’s a standout characteristic of American politics and society in the 21st century, it’s how disunited the United States is in its politics and cultural life. Since 2000, when Democrat Al Gore ...

When President Roosevelt signed the Civilian Conservation Corps bill in March 1933 as part of his New Deal, he sought to protect the wealth of forests and create ways to control floods and decrease so ...

On Nov. 9, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Panama to observe the progress being made on the construction of the canal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal wasn’t just focused on good jobs and fairness for workers. It addressed basic needs for ...

Truckers' protest poster The increasing influence of the federal government over the economy has led many Americans to expect ...

When Dwight D. Eisenhower became president, he aimed to overhaul the Pentagon and balance America’s defense spending with ...

Theodore Roosevelt, a titan of political progressivism, war hero, champion of American exceptionalism, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and 26th president of the United States, was born in New York ...

For two years, Roosevelt left New York for solitude in the Dakota Territory ... As president, he initiated what was called the Square Deal, encouraging his administration's use of the Sherman ...

He was the leader of the progressive movement and championed his "Square Deal" domestic ... on to establish the new Progressive Party and ran in the presidential election in 1912. However, Democratic ...