While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

Fiscal policy in the United States is heavily influenced by the ideological and economic priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties.

Prior to the tariffs, the US had a massive trade deficit with Japan. In 1986, the deficit was about $55bn. The deficit ...

Alternatively disavowed and embraced by President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign, Project 2025 is a collection of conservative policy proposals – many written by veterans of his first ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, alias FDR, is the longest-serving president in the history of the US. His presidency lasted 12 years. That means he served three presidential terms of four years each. His rule ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

In 2019, during his first presidency, Trump announced the new Air Force Ones would be donned in red, white and blue. But the ...