When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

A proposal to rename Chaim Herzog Park in Rathgar, Ireland, has become the nexus of a long-standing spat between Ireland and ...

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, the mayor-elect goes behind the scenes of his meeting with the president and talks ...

In 1975, industrialist Norton Simon took over the critically acclaimed but financially troubled Pasadena Art Museum. Simon spent decades building a food production empire, starting with a small juice ...

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs ...

Former congressman Chris Gibson’s The Spirit of Philadelphia argues that recovering a lost “common sense realism” may be the only way to heal American politics.

Such a decision will “destroy the structure of government” and remove one of the remaining roadblocks to the president’s ...

Archives are a powerful way to expose historical abuses — from war crimes to broken government promises — by preserving ...

The House and Senate voted in favor of the Justice Department releasing the Epstein files after President Donald Trump urged ...

I drove across the country to bear witness — to speak with those living their ordinary lives amid the darkness of the Trump ...

Israel literally means “One who struggles with God." The origin of the name Israel is a Biblical verse, referring to Jacob: ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...