Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
PHOTO COLLECTION: US Federal Government Buildings
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The end of the founders’ presidency
Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.
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US Vice President JD Vance’s memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
AJ columnist Rogelio Medina on the way to Narita, Japan onboard Japan Airlines. THANKS to the nice and courteous service from ...
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Like Trump’s, Presidential Inaugurations Often Draw Protests
Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously ...
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Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America ...
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These notable inaugurations weren’t held at the US Capitol. Here’s why
After just 200 days in office — a presidency historians called “impactful,” if short — an “embittered attorney” passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at ... The Constitution ...
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U.S. presidents who weren't inaugurated outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
While Monday's inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump is set to break with tradition and take place inside the Capitol due to dangerously ... After President James Garfield was shot in ...