One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

Much ink has been spilled over Donald Trump’s record-shattering fundraising for his second inauguration. The president-elect has collected a reported $170 million for the smattering of ceremonies and festivities in Washington,

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

Yet no opening presidential bid for power compares to President Donald Trump’s out-of-the-blue freeze of federal funds across the government. Much about the initial memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget,

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the American president’s club?

He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world.

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the childhood home of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, which served as his home from 1885 until his death in 1919.

The second Presential inauguration of Donald Trump averaged 24.3 million viewers, a audience lower than Biden in 2021 (33.8 million) and Trump in 2017 (30.6 million).

Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.

When President Barack Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, unemployment was surging, markets were plunging and families were losing their homes. He inherited an economic calamity.

President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday in an inauguration ceremony that took place inside the Capitol for the first time in 40 years.

The commerce secretary manages a sprawling organization including trade, fisheries, weather forecasting and cutting-edge AI research.