This tale of an interracial couple in America is a fresh and illuminating take on recent social and political history that’s ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

President Donald Trump is talking up the possibility of regime change in Iran after the U.S. joined Israel in bombing Iranian ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.” But on this year’s ...

Oregon combined two state holidays dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington into a single Presidents Day in 1985, when it adopted Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

What is particularly striking on this Presidents’ Day is that President Trump is aligned more closely with Washington and Lincoln in forestalling internal demise and corruption than almost any ...

Presidents Day is still George Washington’s birthday. It is also a symptom of a veneration of the imperial presidency that is un-republican and would have horrified the Founding Fathers.

The federal holiday is officially Washington’s Birthday to honor George, the first president, and 34 states use his name in some way. States seem to have as many names for it and ideas about ...

The federal holiday is officially Washington’s Birthday to honor George, ... A historical exhibit at the Kansas Statehouse includes a display quoting President Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 13, 2025, ...