His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

This page lists the candidates for office endorsed by Barack Obama. According to Politico, Obama had not traditionally endorsed candidates prior to the 2016 election, when he prepared a list of 150 ...

There is no other Cabinet position that has to engage with lawmakers in Congress across so many disparate technical issues, ...

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the ...

He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S.

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

Every president strives to create a legacy that will be part of the headline in their obituary. They crave policy achievements or a foreign triumph with which their name will ...

Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.

When President Barack Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, unemployment was surging, markets were plunging and ...

President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday in an inauguration ceremony ...

Recently, pop stars including Beyoncé and Lady Gaga have sung at presidential inaugurations, but it wasn’t always a platform ...