The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More than two centuries later, it remains an invaluable institution that ...

A makeshift grandstand is erected next to the Capitol and hundreds of thousands people line the National Mall.

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...

During his four years as president, Democrat Joe Biden experienced a sustained series of defeats at the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new president deliver a ...

Because Washington is going to be in the deep freeze on Monday, they’re swearing him in at a podium in the Capitol rotunda, ...