Today, we feature the 14th president of the United States. Franklin Pierce was born on Nov. 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New ...

It might sound strange to think the leader of the free world earns a salary every year like the rest of us, but that's exactly how it works. While quantifying how much one of the biggest jobs in the ...

More than almost any other decisions, pardons tell us who and what really matters to presidents — and we all have an interest ...

After President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in the 1940s, Americans voted to put term limits in the Constitution Getty; Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Only one ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has ...

Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. The funeral, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump immunity decision “helped underwrite the era of presidentially-directed ...

In a social media post Saturday, President Trump pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate his political rivals, fueling concerns about the administration weaponizing the Justice Department.

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. The assassination of Charlie Kirk stunned first the audience at Utah Valley University, where he was shot while speaking Sept. 10, and then the country, ...