Historians rated the US presidents on leadership qualities. The survey did not include Joe Biden since he was still in office ...

Calvin Coolidge was sworn in to his second term as the 30th president exactly 100 years ago. It turns out "Silent Cal" had a lot to say -- about the virtues of saying little. John Dickerson and ...

Whatever one feels about Trump, some historians say Presidencies like his and Roosevelt's can signal a new era.

Calvin Coolidge’s initial presidential inauguration will forever be unique in American history. He was vice president and vacationing at his father’s home in Vermont. Upon learning of the ...

Minding the Campus The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an essay titled “How a University Fights an ...

A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge praised the importance of federal budgeting, calling it a “noble monument of virtue.” ...

Kansas City and many other municipalities desperately wanted to join this exclusive club, and 70 years ago the doors swung ...

Starting with the civil service reforms of the late 1800s, professional bureaucracies emerged following the end of ...

One of the complaints against modern government is that it has become administration by decree. Presidents rely upon what is essentially lawmaking prerogative by virtue of Executive orders. The ...

Calvin Coolidge, president from 1925-1929 expressed the prevailing sentiment when he explained, in 1926, that “if the federal government should go out of existence, the common run of people ...