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As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid...

In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....

Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...

When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...