President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a very unusual plan for the nation’s 250th anniversary next year: a ...

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From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...

Donald Trump faces a more immediate historical burden that has plagued so many presidents: the "second term curse".

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The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

Although these decrees are nothing new in American government, they must be issued within the scope of a president's ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

The American eschatological impulse to war is to achieve a definite victorious outcome, even when the costly extra effort is ...

The state that is named after President George Washington is not just evergreen, but has "ever-energy," thanks to its lake with 12 trillion liters of water.