In accepting the presidency of what was still an experiment in republican democracy ... United States Navy. Through actions like these, Washington launched the fledgling nation on a promising course ...

George Washington wore many hats. He was a solider, farmer, brewer, entrepreneur, and visionary. He also had a lot of money, and is thought to have been the richest US president, with an estimated ...

That famous description of George Washington by ... actively seeking the candidacy, Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the Constitution.

This bit of lost history ... plot to kill Washington, how the episode gave rise to the U.S.’s counterintelligence efforts and what we can learn from it today. What did George Washington ...

President Donald Trump has alluded to arcane legal arguments in repeatedly suggesting he could seek a third term. Besides challenging long-settled readings of the U.S. Constitution, a Trump move to ...

Liberal democracy and ... The spread of “end of history” thinking among the U.S. elite in the 1990s and early 2000s was striking. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush championed the ...

Since George W. Bush defeated John ... not resign themselves to the collapse of their democracy. The United States, after all, has a long history of abandoning dangerous political projects when ...