Pence is running against his old boss. The last VP to try that bombed
Mike Pence is the third vice president to run against his former boss (Thomas Jefferson was the first) and the first since a disastrous challenge...
The ex-president who went to court and became his own star witness
Some 110 years before Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami, another former president was part of a high-profile trial while attempting to retake the White...
Americans’ taxes used to be public — until the rich revolted
For a while in the 1920s, everybody's tax payments were public record. Then, as now, the ultrarich paid relatively low tax rates after taking legal...
The first Jewish justice was also the first to face confirmation hearings
Until 1916, Congress didn't conduct public hearings on Supreme Court nominees. That changed when President Woodrow Wilson nominated Boston lawyer Louis D. Brandeis to be...
Wright brothers versus Smithsonian: the bitter feud over who invented the airplane
Orville Wright set off a national firestorm by revealing in his letter that he planned to send the Wright Flyer to the Science Museum at...
Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up a week to goose the economy. Chaos ensued.
To boost the economy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up a week to create an extra seven days of Christmas shopping. Turkey Day traditionalists...