President Johnson meets with four leaders of the civil rights movement, discussing the president's war on poverty, and the ...

The bill attacking the freedom to vote should be Congress’s “number one priority.” “It will guarantee the midterms,” he told them. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.” As many readers of ...

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

Churchill would be appalled by the kinds of things Donald Trump says and does. But Fleet Street is happy to ignore history ...

Remarks by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the American press emphasizes U.S. casualties in the Iran war because it ...

While many GOP lawmakers have expressed public support for President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, some have privately ...

Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.

In a just released book, “Don’t Tell the President”, readers experience seldom to never before told stories about what ...

Norah O'Donnell has interviewed a lot of people in her long career, including some of the most important women of our time, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Kamala Harris, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about Lyndon Johnson's first speech to Congress after becoming ...

An unrelenting drive to succeed took Tom Johnson from Macon to the White House to leading CNN during its glory years. But it also enabled him to avoid focusing on himself. Only in retirement has he ...

The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for ...