The 47th US president and his family have benefited more financially from the presidency than any of his predecessors.
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Air Force One shouldn’t be seen as only a cool piece of flying technology or a political flash point. Instead, writes a historian, the presidential plane has shaped and defined the modern presidency.
This account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency is full of direct quotes from White House insiders.
According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second term is different – as is Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump is not an accident of history. His re-election is in line with a profound structural change in American society that began at the end of the Cold War.
Was this the biggest security blunder in American history?
Donald Trump has cited the Gilded Age era as an inspiration – but experts say it was rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality.
Overwhelming people with a deluge of announcements makes it difficult to easily track and understand what is happening in the White House.
When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.
US President Donald Trump claimed that “national unity is now returning to America” in an inaugural speech marked by vows to radically change government. But a razor-thin Republican majority in Congress and a divided electorate could complicate his plans.
The mechanics of upending American democracy would entail surmounting a thick tangle of constitutional, bureaucratic, legal and political obstacles.
Though the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond Jan. 20, 2029. A scholar of politics and history explains.
The Department of Homeland Security’s massive bureaucracy has many critical national security functions and spends billions of taxpayer dollars seeking to keep the nation safe.
A decade ago, people did not even agree on the traits that defined women politicians. Now they see women seeking political office as intelligent, rational, analytical, ambitious and moral.
Harris’ support for abortion rights and political unity – as well as the fact that she offers an antidote to Donald Trump – helps explain her appeal to the people who plan to vote for her.
Allowing immigrants to settle in the US isn’t just an act of compassion. It’s also been a significant factor in the country’s economic growth, a point both candidates seem hesitant to make.
Democrats have been losing rural voters across the US since the 1960s, and that collapse has fueled Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.
In worrying and consequential times, it is necessary to stay informed about the upcoming US election. Many excellent analyses are available.
Even Louis XIV of France, the epitome of absolute monarchy, did not stand above the law. Kings have always been defined and constrained by legal precedent.
Politicians often are firmly committed to what they say they will do – until they announce otherwise.
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
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Lecturer in American Politics, University College Cork
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in French History, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Georgia State University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University