The Taft administration’s early 20th-century equivalent to the Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was called the Commission on Economy and Efficiency. Unlike DOGE, created by ...

Americans often expect former presidents to not talk about current ones. But it’s not really a surprise that several are ...

Donald Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned and un-American.

Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis ... Roosevelt was disappointed that his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft, failed to live up to Roosevelt’s vision of reform.

It wasn’t just George Washington that made third terms rare — presidents and governors wear out their welcome. It’s a timely ...

His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1906, for his work in settling the Russian-Japanese War. He was the first American to ...

America's first president, George Washington, set an unofficial precedent when ... but would later run as a third-party candidate in 1912 after a fallout with then-President William Howard Taft.

As I have noted in prior columns, President Teddy Roosevelt is my third favorite, after George Washington and ... ran against his successor, William Howard Taft, on the third party, the “Bull ...