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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....

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

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

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

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

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...

If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...

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