Political analysis is comparative, not qualitative. It isn’t that the people who win elections are necessarily good at ...

None of this is hidden, and scholars have been writing about it for decades (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s famous book The Imperial Presidency was published in 1973). And while the aggregation of ...

Josh Shapiro strikes back at Kamala Harris' memoir with explosive claims about allegedly antisemitic VP vetting questions, escalating their political feud.

In 1948, Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked his colleagues in the History and Government Department to rate 29 presidents. His son, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., repeated the exercise for the ...

Although time seems to go much faster as we age, in order to assure the best possible future, it is important to remember — and to learn from — our past. Fortunately, we have many books, films and our ...

As you may have heard from the sounds of the jackhammers, the East Wing of the White House is no more. The new ballroom under construction will surely create its own stories, but the East Wing’s ...

"It is well past time that the U.S., E.U., and other powerful actors in the international community seriously reconsider this cruel and often counterproductive mechanism," said one critic. Daily news ...

I’m not sure when I and two colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute started an etiquette seminar for research assistants and interns. As a poll watcher, I was writing about the first poll on ...

WASHINGTON - David Gergen, a journalist who served as a White House advisor to Republican and Democratic presidents, died on Thursday at age 83, according to the Harvard Kennedy School, where Gergen ...

These “No Kings” demonstrations of recent weeks are certainly very much in the American tradition, aren’t they? How could they not be, since we once fought a war to rid ourselves of rule under the ...

The historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who died in 2007 — and whose specialty was partisan hagiography, particularly on behalf of the Kennedy brothers — was once asked, “If you had to say that the ...