A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the nearly absolute pardon power to be an exception. Alexander Hamilton, for ...

Research on the role of US presidents has attempted to define how previous presidents rank compared to their peers. There is general agreement that the United States has had three truly great ...

Gary Ginsberg is the author of “First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents.” ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know?

Every January 1 is Public Domain Day, as the copyright on many works of art expires and they are released onto the public domain.