The 47th US president and his family have benefited more financially from the presidency than any of his predecessors.
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Trump is not the first president to lean into an exaggerated patriotism at a time of crisis. But the vanity of his actions signals something perhaps unique.
The 2025 deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador was a chilling sign of how easy it is for US presidents to sidestep the constitution.
Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engagements. That’s nothing new.
US presidents haven’t usually sought to impress their own architectural tastes – much less their names while in office – on national monuments.
Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.
Washington’s fundamental character as a military leader was forged in the Ohio River Valley, where he also inadvertently helped ignite the French and Indian War.
Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty must be to the US.
Trump has spent the first year of his second term pushing the limits of presidential power. He’s the latest in a long line of leaders who try to bypass Congress.
The president has sued multiple media companies. He may care less about winning in court than intimidating news outlets, suggest two media scholars.
Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
Presidents are typically expected to be focused on national security, economic management and other key issues handled at the national level. Donald Trump has turned those assumptions upside down.
Some US presidents have been defined by their adept use of the media. Donald Trump’s weapon of choice is his TruthSocial platform.
A nation’s history is told by its records. The White House no longer publishing Trump’s full remarks makes this history less complete.
Presidents have used the national guard before, but only to protect civil rights, not to deny the right to protest.
Turns out, presidents − just like the rest of us − sometimes say embarrassing things. Or mean things. Or clueless things. Certainly things they regret.
Donald Trump isn’t the first US president to try to negotiate a peace deal. But he appears to be doing it differently than others.
While Roman emperors dominated the institutions of state, they were still constrained by them.
Donald Trump has passed far fewer laws in his first 85 days than other presidents, but is using a different method to create change.
While President Donald Trump appears to govern with the flourish of a head of state, he is more invested in the job’s pageantry than the day-to-day.
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Elizabethtown College
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
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Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Professor of History, Iowa State University
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Professor of History and Provost Emeritus, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University
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Professor of Political Science, Elizabethtown College
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College