In my new Confirmation Tales post, I explore why Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s age of 60 in 1993 didn’t sink her candidacy for the Supreme Court. A big part of the answer is that there were very few ...

Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for ...

Two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, to be constructed "in the years ahead," will carry the names of former President Bill ...

George H.W. Bush fired the majority of Reagan's appointees in an attempt to distance himself from his predecessor. "It was an ideological housecleaning," says presidential historian John Robert ...

Peter B. Teeley, who made a lasting entry in the political lexicon during the 1980 presidential primary when, as press secretary to George H.W. Bush, he came up with the term “voodoo economics ...

Former US President George H W Bush is in a hospital intensive care unit with an infection, a week after the death of his wife, Barbara. In a statement, a family spokesman said he had contracted ...

I teach at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, named after the 38th president, the only ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) sails in formation in the Philippine Sea. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced two new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, to enter ...

WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer after two terms as ...