Fiscal policy in the United States is heavily influenced by the ideological and economic priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941 ... a move that led the NAACP to call it a "token" action. But it was Johnson, elevated to the presidency by the assassination of ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

The coalition collapse that doomed Biden follows a grim precedent set by another Democratic leader: Jimmy Carter.

Alternatively disavowed and embraced by President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign, Project 2025 is a collection of conservative policy proposals – many written by veterans of his first ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

By just about any measure you can name, the national Democratic Party is in its most ragged shape since the Reagan era.

Leuchtenburg's notable books include "Franklin D ... of Roosevelt in the Oval Office. The 2005 book "The White House Looks South" featured sections on Roosevelt, Truman and Lyndon Johnson and ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for… The Tet Offensive began in stealth 50 years ago in Vietnam, but it ended up ...

Over the course of his four years, Mr. Biden has invited comparisons to the policies and ambition of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has said John F. Kennedy partially inspired his ...

Leuchtenburg's notable books include "Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ... House Looks South" featured sections on Roosevelt, Truman and Lyndon Johnson and told of how each embraced or ...