Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s attorney visited Justice Department headquarters Friday to discuss the future of the mayor’s criminal ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

The president of the Board of Education has asked The Williams School to shoulder the $100,000 annual cost of a school nurse that’s long been paid by the school district, calling it the “right thing ...

New York’s attorney general is in the van of opposition to the 47th president’s agenda — and he owes her office some $500 ...

I am writing to express my deep concern about Donald Trump’s plan to reinstate the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This law, passed by President John Adams, allows the president to detain or remove ...

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do ...

President Donald Trump's administration has released an update on the mysterious drones spotted flying over New Jersey ...

Five New York City Democrats are competing to become the left-leaning candidate of choice in the June mayoral primary.

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...