I am writing to express my deep concern about Donald Trump’s plan to reinstate the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This law, passed by President John Adams, allows the president to detain or remove ...

After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After ... lectures he gave at the Collège de France. And he has a kind of dystopian ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

The amazing thing about President Trump’s revolutionary rejection of the old order was that it occurred in five different areas. It was decisive in each.

A once famous essay published in 1888 asked “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents.” It’s time to dust it off.

Americans Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams had negotiated and signed the ... 1784 officially ended the American Revolutionary War. According to the Library of Congress, two stipulations ...

Seamus Adams rolls out programme where those with most-polluting vehicles could pay £750 to park outside own homes ...

The elder Bush lost reelection in 1992 as the economy sputtered, but he already had begun to climb back in the polls as he handed over the White House keys to Bill Clinton. His son's ratings dropped ...

The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency that, in a more limited way, equal the still-famous work of Alexander de ...

The law would allow the president to deport immigrants who are alleged to be gang members without court hearings.

“But for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.” Carter defeated Ford in 1976 but the presidents and their ...