Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse. Lofgren’s prediction came in a review of the book Watchdogs by Glenn Fine ...

T he U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868. Nine of those articles cited Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Perhaps a related issue occurred during the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. At the time, Benjamin Wade, the Senate President Pro Tempore, was next in line for the presidency. Wade voted ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

Last month, President Joe Biden sat down with MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas for an interview. Meiselas asked the outgoing president whether he would be attending President-elect Donald Trump’s ...