The country heavily taxed imports for much of its history before largely abandoning the policy, beginning in the 1930s, as government leaders embraced the idea of free trade ...

Biden took office during one of the most fraught periods in modern American history. The nation was still grappling with the ...

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a ...

From the column: "If issued under a valid claim of authority and published, executive orders have the force and effect of law ...

The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed that charges dropped against President-elect Donald J. Trump in the Fulton County ...

Amid Joe Biden's executive order to ban offshore drilling and President-elect Donald Trump's claim he will reverse it on his ...

This week Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation, in which he warned of the looming threat of unchecked power ...

After he lost 42 of the 48 states in 1932, Herbert Hoover wrote: “Democracy is a harsh employer.” Sometimes appropriately so.

Presidential inaugurations are by definition historic acts, but when we think of past Inauguration Days there is clearly a ...

A monthly child allowance went away, but bigger food benefits and health care subsidies could be here to stay.

Donald Trump will become US President for the second time. The inauguration ceremony traditionally held at the Capitol in ...

The 46th president's successes and failures — and the predecessors who invite the closest comparisons to Joe Biden as he ...