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Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little...

Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....

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....

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

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

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...