As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

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Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...

Jimmy Reid warned in a speech hailed as the greatest since Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by the New York Times against ...

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Names are tricky things. What was the federal holiday at the start of this week? Most people say “Presidents Day,” but there ...

His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

What a difference a year makes—or in this case just four weeks since Trump’s inauguration—regarding the state of the nation ...

Monday is Presidents’ Day. And while there doesn’t seem to be much agreement as to whether it is meant to celebrate the lives ...

On Feb. 22, we celebrate the birthday of our first president, George Washington. I like to take this occasion to reflect on ...