Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...

We know that U.S. vice presidents are often the objects of humorous jabs for their secondary role in the executive branch or ...

Trump and Nixon are far from the only presidents to rake in money for inaugurations. Twelve years after Nixon's $4 million ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...

Biden issued preemptive pardons, while Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. Over the past several weeks, two U.S. presidents use ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for president.

Iowa City Community Theater (ICCT) premiered its production of Frost/Nixon on Friday night at The James Theater. The play by ...

On July 15, Nixon announced to his nation’s surprise — and Taiwan’s distress — that he would visit China. The United Nations ...

Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...