The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...

On Feb. 22, we celebrate the birthday of our first president, George Washington. I like to take this occasion to reflect on ...

Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address was unlike Joe Biden's or Donald Trump's speeches. Religion, for Washington, was not a mere slogan. God was not someone to be remade in the image of his ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

But, only a few focus on threats to American democracy. Indeed, at the genre's origin, George Washington’s famous farewell address was the first to alert the American people to forces that might ...

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history. Our nation’s first president was born near Popes Creek, Virginia, on February 11, 1731. That date might have ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.