Senators have had two-and-a-half months to consider Trump’s nominees. Confirmation is part of their constitutional duty.

For those who believe in honesty, truth, justice, the rule of law and caring for the least of our brothers, Trump's return is a dark day.

Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”

Donald Trump is only the second U.S. president elected to two non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who bore many similarities to the president-elect during his 19th-century political career,

Some thought Trump might pivot to a message of unity and reconciliation on the occasion of his victory. That did not happen.

Jan. 20, 2017: Then-incoming President Donald Trump talks with his outgoing predecessor, Barack Obama, on Trump’s inauguration day on Washington. Four years later, Trump would boycott the inauguration of his own successor, Joe Biden.

Military service has not done much if anything for Democrats—Clinton won the nomination against two primary opponents, Bob Kerrey and Doug Wilder, with heroic war records. And then he won the presidency against George H.W. Bush, who enlisted at 18 and survived two close calls in World War II.

Both Democrats and Republicans will be gathering Monday in Washington, D.C. for the every-four-years ritual of the presidential inauguration at one of the most deeply divisive times in American

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.

WASHINGTON — With Donald Trump’s return to the White House only days away ... Credit: AP/Susan Walsh Brazile was campaign manager for Al Gore, the last sitting vice president to run for the top job. “I’ve had more people call me about what ...

Breckinridge is recognized as the youngest vice president in U.S. history. But, does the recently inaugurated JD Vance make the list?

We are exiting the era of hyperpolitics. All flames — even the hottest and most spectacular — eventually burn out. Perhaps the most important way to understand the causes that dominated the hyperpolitical era is that they each,