PETER BAKER

Volatility has become the new norm in Washington as the president heads to Japan, where he will reassure world leaders that the debt ceiling showdown…

While the president argues that he is the one best positioned to stop his predecessor from returning to the White House, surveys indicate that he…

The White House festooned the East Room with cherry blossoms and organized a head table that included Angelina Jolie and the Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim.

President Biden has acknowledged that he has not accomplished all he wished to. But that, he maintains, is an argument for his re-election.

While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to…

The president’s trip to Northern Ireland will mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of violence. But such breakthroughs are…

The former president’s appetite for attention has been fundamental to his identity for decades. Where others may focus on the hazards of a criminal case,…

For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and…

George W. Bush has told advisers that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein — and he has not changed his mind about that.

Nearly 43 years later, a prominent Texas politician said he was an unwitting part of a mission to sabotage President Carter’s campaign.