Lincoln’s Social and Economic Policy In one year of his presidency, 1862, Lincoln signed four nation changing acts. One was the Homestead...

Lincoln’s Social and Economic Policy In one year of his presidency, 1862, Lincoln signed four nation changing acts. One was the Homestead...

The New York Times reported recently on a little noted aspect of Barack Obama’s legacy that will have lasting impact for the country. In...

The New York Times reported recently on a little noted aspect of Barack Obama’s legacy that will have lasting impact for the country. In...

Americans of color may have significantly more challenges to overcome with employment, education, health and housing than most white...

First the admissions: Democrats – thank Nancy Pelosi as well as the president for this – completely lost control of any coherent message...

From the partisan breakdown in Washington politics, including the now distant memory of a pointless and costly shutdown of the federal...

The president was making his way to the Oval Office after his daily swim that Saturday when he was told by an aide of the unwelcome news...

The president might start by remembering that there are three things in politics that can be enormously powerful, but are almost always...

“If there is that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the US signature, it would mean massive disruption...

While the nation dangles one foot over the fiscal cliff and while most of the federal government remains shut down, the epicenter of...

From Harry Truman to George W. Bush American presidents have committed the United States military to wars based on every justification...

Germond, who died this week at age 85, was definitely of the “old school.” He knew how to change a typewriter ribbon and I’ll bet he once...

As Sarah Kliff wrote recently in the Washington Post “nobody knew whether the new program would provide benefits to millions or fail...

Trouble comes in threes and in the case of the stumbling start to Barack Obama’s second term trouble is spelled three ways –...

In no particular order here are my suggestions for compelling reading on presidents most of us have forgotten or never knew. I would...

Ol’ Silent Cal came to the Black Hills of South Dakota to vacation in the summer of 1927 and the magnanimous native people who considered...

One appointee, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, (that’s him with Gen. George Marshall) had actually served as Secretary of State in the...

In 1963 when the young black activist, John Lewis, who later became the distinguished Congressman from Georgia, was nearly beaten to...

The Obama campaign and its Super PAC allies spent all summer, as the favorite catch phrase of politics now holds, advancing that...