Buchanan served a decade in Congress, was a senator representing his home state and was secretary of state under President ...

Today, we feature the 14th president of the United States. Franklin Pierce was born on Nov. 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. His father, Benjamin Pierce, was a two-time governor of the ...

WEST BRANCH, Iowa (KTIV) - Who’s is the president of the United States of America who has roots in Iowa? Herbert Hoover, of course! He is the only Iowan elected president who died 61 years ago in ...

STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation expanding and ...

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 ...

Lincoln is considered one of our greatest presidents for ending slavery and guiding the nation through the Civil War. He is honored with a larger-than-life statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ...

Only a few months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, the United States looks dramatically and perhaps irreversibly different at home and on the world stage. Trump’s rampage through the ...

There are all kinds of perks to being the boss, big and small. As George H.W. Bush once said: “I’m president of the United States. And I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!” To be the boss of an Ivy ...

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. In the normal course of history, the president of the United States is a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Reuben Brigety, President of Busara Advisors and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa ...