Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in 1989, when Ronald Reagan left a note for George H.W. Bush on stationery with a ...

Revisiting Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration, from the vantage point of George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration.

Presidential scholars say it's not worth it for Bush to get involved in public spats with Trump and say it will only hurt him ...

A quarter century of political, social, and economic upheaval has left little mark on the political behavior of the “American ...

For years, Barfield had been resisting what he describes as mission drift: a retreat by the nation’s premier free-speech ...

Reagan’s inauguration was the first to be held on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol, a vantage that planners selected both ...

Bush "will provide insights into the challenges and triumphs faced during their tenure in office, as well as reflections on ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated ...

A longtime enthusiast of political tradition, Biden could well embrace membership in the ex-presidents club. The former ...

President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, President-elect ...

The spectacle in Washington this week was extraordinary — a deceased president and a revived president at opposite ends of the moral scale. Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as ...