In October 1973, the Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a District Court order directing President Richard Nixon to turn ...

Today is Friday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2025. There are 313 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 21, 1965, civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem’s Audubon ...

Bernstein’s endlessly inquisitive nature — what historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has called his “infinite curiosity” — was ...

He served three terms in the Senate before stepping down to become president of OU. His public image was later tarnished by ...

In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors.

Danielle Sassoon and six of her Justice Department colleagues followed in the principled tradition of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus when they resigned this week rather than participate in ...

Since taking office, the Trump administration and DOGE have been seeking to unilaterally override the spending plans set by ...

President Richard M. Nixon sought to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation, but his attorney ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as president of CNAS from 2012–19 and as senior fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.