Eighty-five years ago this week, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" speech changed American politics forever. Promising suffering Americans that he would spare neither tradition nor expense to ...

Ronald Reagan often said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” He isn’t the only one who felt ...

Biden’s accomplishments echo themes and priorities from the major initiatives by Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Johnson and Reagan. Two Republicans and two Democrats.

Shirley said Reagan, John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had all of those traits, while Obama and Clinton didn’t, often delivering well-received speeches that were quickly forgotten ...

From the vantage of the Reagan centennial, with the twentieth century receding into the past, it wasn’t unreasonable to measure Reagan against his political hero, Franklin Roosevelt.

Just when Ronald Reagan seems to have survived a Nationalist Right charge that his philosophy was a kind of zombie Libertarianism, here comes Henry Olsen ...

Historian H.W. Brands says President-elect Obama can learn lessons from former Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Obama may consider a presidential blog a fireside chat for the 21st ...

The uplifting tone with which journalists are eulogizing Ronald Reagan is obscuring a central fact of his presidency: He had a very contentious relationship with the press. Most reporters liked ...

Yesterday, I wrote about how George Washington and Donald Trump reacted to bullets missing them. I thought to check on two other Presidents who survived assassination attempts. On October 14, 1912 ...

Gwen Ifill discusses the tribute to Ronald Reagan and some moments of his presidency with author and journalist Haynes Johnson and Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus.

Reagan had applauded Roosevelt’s big government initiatives throughout the Great Depression and World War II, but with each passing year after the war, the need for big government diminished.