By seeking to impose his rules on the rest of the world, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the White House. But he stands out through his protectionism.

Only three of his predecessors underwent similar proceedings: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were acquitted after trials in the Senate; and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being ...

For their final exam, students had to rank the scandals from worst-worst to least-worst — and explain why. While some of former President Richard Nixon’s staffers argued that Nixon was the real victim ...

Team Trump prefers executive-branch power grabs to legislation, and soon rescissions will present another test of ...

Presidents have hidden surgeries, heart attacks, and mental decline from voters, leading to intense questions about their ...

Most presidents have limited themselves to small changes to Social Security, whether they tried to improve it or destroy it.

With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

Once again, that’s just an outright lie. The Social Security bill that FDR signed in 1935 taxed income up to $3,000. That ...

While a great many modern presidents have struggled in their fifth year in the White House, Donald Trump is blazing an even more cringeworthy trail.