Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after ... was a fight over the future direction of the United States; a fight with implications that reverberate to this day.

Two letter writers take issue with Sen. Ron Johnson's comments that federal judges are overstepping constitutional boundaries ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) about the impact of the new round of tariffs imposed by the Trump ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

At once chief executive, head of state, commander-in-chief, and leader of a political party, the President of the United States is also a prominent cultural figure, and a bellwether of the society ...