Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.
They signed landmark legislation, created new programs, ordered military action and endured early stumbles.
As democratic values and alliances were being turned upside down, the pope was a consistent moral guidepost. Who can play that role now?
When it comes to the presidency, a consequential start does not in any way equate to long-term success.
Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.
While the shuffling of artwork in the president’s residence drew criticism, that kind of rotation is common with the change of administrations.
The former first lady said on a podcast that people “couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”
President Trump, who has waged a long-running battle against low water pressure, signed an executive order that redefined a common bathroom fixture.
Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.
We got our economic response to the coronavirus right. Why would we let go of that success?