Under a nearly-60-year-old law, the White House and several other notable buildings are exempt from a key historic ...

Sid Davis, who died on Oct. 13, was the last surviving reporter who watched Lyndon Johnson sworn in to the presidency aboard ...

33.Today, not only is the East Wing gone, but the East Colonnade and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden are as well. The ...

The future of the Voting Rights Act is again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. Because the court still doesn’t allow ...

We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter went to press: to question the received wisdom, ...

Oregon Department of Corrections this year floated the idea of replacing the state penitentiary, citing sweltering summer ...

Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the ...

A newborn Asian elephant has been named 'Lady Bird' after a former First Lady. The 250lb female Asian elephant calf was born ...

Demolition of the White House’s East Wing, itself a source of multiple controversies for more than 200 years, was completed ...

Several preservation groups have expressed concern in recent weeks about the project, which is the first major change to the ...