He saved democracy itself.
President Biden wants to change the trajectory of the country. He’s off to a good start.
The commission will also examine other potential changes such as term limits for justices. Progressives are pushing President Biden to add seats to balance the court’s conservative majority.
Roosevelt’s choice to run the antitrust wing of the Justice Department, Robert Jackson, took just 14 months to change the country.
The painting, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” was a gift to Jolie by Brad Pitt and is believed to be Churchill’s only World War II-era landscape.
A childhood friend’s deadly mistakes prompt reflection on our country’s — and my own.
A White House seeking to advance its agenda introduces a format that includes the president speaking with handpicked citizens.
Biden can improve the lives of hundreds of thousands with a single executive order.
The most daunting challenge for Mr. Biden in the weeks ahead will be balancing his stated desire for bipartisanship with his sense of urgency.
So far, Joe Biden has been surprisingly progressive.
The inaugural of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is not the first to take place at a tense moment in American history.
Using a crisis to reduce child poverty and make America more truly a land of opportunity.
As politics becomes a high-stakes spectator sport, pollsters are reviewing their latest failures. But is part of the problem the public’s overly high expectations of precision?
In the rural hills of Georgia, a state he is seeking to win, Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for “healing” and “restoration,” and a commitment to a common purpose to meet the challenges of the coronavirus.
Eighty years ago, the United States made a tragic decision to pursue global supremacy. The project has outlived its purpose.
Mr. Biden has staked his campaign on a more muscular federal role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. But some of his big government proposals may be difficult to put into effect.
David Michaelis’s “Eleanor” describes an unstoppable force who had a profound effect on American politics.
“The Daughters of Yalta,” by Catherine Grace Katz, recounts the events of the 1945 conference from the perspective of three daughters of Allied leaders who proved themselves indispensable.
The Supreme Court was never meant to be the only arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution.
At the height of the war, 982 refugees fleeing the Nazis were invited by President Roosevelt to a converted military base in upstate New York.
“The Churchill Complex,” by Ian Buruma, examines the invented kinship of Anglo-American relations since World War II.
Ian W. Toll’s “Twilight of the Gods,” the third volume of a trilogy, details the American triumph in the Pacific War.
Floating the idea of delaying the election was the latest step in the president’s running effort to discredit the election, risking long-term damage to public trust in the system.
What Biden can learn from F.D.R.
Mexican democrats will not forget Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s reverence to the man who has maligned us.
I grew up in the Great Depression and served in World War II. Trust me when I say America will survive this crisis, too.
The Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps helped build America at a time of national crisis.
Congress should enact a federal jobs guarantee.
Turns out that 19th-century political campaigns offer some tantalizing clues.
The Federal Art Project, part of Roosevelt’s sweeping employment plan, gave work to thousands of artists, but politics and society were different then.
