ronald reagan

DAYS: The first hundred days of a president’s term are considered a benchmark for action. How did it become so important? We owe that to Franklin D. R...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

Forget the “Never Trumpers” supporting Kamala Harris. Most are caught up in ego, appeasing their new-found progressive donors or so busy protecting a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than ot...

(TNS) — Next week’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be novel for many reasons. It will be the first debate between a current and a form...

“The real question today is not when human life begins, but what is the value of human life?” President Ronald Reagan asserted this on the 10th annive...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is “no longer a danger to himself or others” and will be freed from all res...

Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for C...

President Joe Biden’s bid to retool the U.S. economy has me thinking about the parallels with earlier transformational presidents: FDR and Reagan. One...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

There was a time, decades ago, when competence and good governance were synonymous with good politics. Republican Former Gov. Richard Thornburgh, who ...

WASHINGTON — With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predece...

WASHINGTON — The prospect of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is understandably tantalizing for President Trump. After all the contempt he has faced from...

Donald Trump is a dominant presence in our public life, although one that his adversaries have trouble accepting and processing. The left is still loo...

WASHINGTON — Transparency, thy name is Trump, Donald Trump. No filter, no governor, no editor lies between his impulses and his public actions. He twe...

WASHINGTON — In January 1988, in Ronald Reagan's final State of the Union address, he noisily dropped on a table next to the podium in the House chamb...

WASHINGTON—In collecting $400,000 from a Wall Street investment firm to make a single speech, Barack Obama is following in the Gucci-clad footsteps of...

WASHINGTON — After every major Trump speech or event, the person I was before it seems desperately naive. I have been a consistent Trump critic, but m...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump needs to heal, not revel. That is, he must work on healing the divided country he is about to lead, not cont...

In the course of about six hours, what was supposed to be a Republican existential crisis turned into a Republican wave. What was supposed to be a vic...