Issues & Policy / Governance

Crucible: the first 365 days

FDR's extraordinary start in office set the standard for all successors

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Governance

A plea for restraint from Congress

That the House abused its power of inquiry does not mean it lacked authority to demand financial records of President Trump. Not all abuses of power are unconstitutional.
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Eisenhower in a Jeep

Foreign Affairs

How the GOP turned away from the world

Decades ago, President Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the Republican Party. Now Trump is toppling his legacy, Miller Center scholar William Hitchcock writes in Politico.