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Yes — both legally and historically the United States can hold a presidential election while at war: the Constitution fixes election dates, Congress and the states run the process, and U.S. history re...
Public records compiled by fact‑checking projects show former president Donald Trump has been documented making far more verifiably false or misleading public claims than other recent presidents — The...
Public opinion and expert surveys show Donald Trump ranks low on measures of moral authority compared with many modern presidents: a 2025 Gallup analysis finds Trump rated worse on ethics than most re...
Historians and polls do not agree on a single “worst” top-ten U.S. president; contemporary expert surveys and journalistic tallies often place Donald Trump, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson among the...
The United States is most precisely described by mainstream government and civics sources as a federal, constitutional republic with many democratic features: it has elected representatives, regular e...
West Virginia separated from Virginia during the Civil War largely because western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to join the Confederacy and because of long‑standing economic, social and politi...
Lyndon LaRouche’s “Four New Laws” are a programmatic package calling for separation of commercial and investment banking (Glass–Steagall), a national bank/federal-credit system to fund productive inve...
The constitutional right that enfranchised Black men—the Fifteenth Amendment—was proposed and ratified during Reconstruction under Republican-dominated Congress and is credited to Republican lawmakers...
Donald J. Trump is unquestionably one of the most polarizing modern presidents, frequently at or near the top of public “most hated” lists, but scholarly historical rankings typically place far earlie...
Yes—you can criticize the President in the United States, but that right is not absolute and has legal and social limits. The First Amendment protects political speech, including criticism of presiden...
There is no single authoritative count in the provided sources that tallies every U.S. politician killed or injured in assassination attempts since 1900; available listings and timelines instead catal...
Executive Summary Historians evaluate U.S. presidents using a that blends measurable accomplishments with judgments about leadership, character, and historical context; common rubrics prioritize goal ...
Politics “shows two ways” because American political life is simultaneously shaped by a structural two‑party system that channels choices into Republican/Democratic frames and by a persistent, contest...
Lyndon LaRouche’s core policy proposals centered on a state-led “American System” of productive credit, large-scale infrastructure, advanced science and nuclear power, protective tariffs, and grand ge...
Historic White House interiors have long featured gilding and gilt objects — from gilded pianos and silk valances in ceremonial rooms to gilt service pieces on dining mantels — and in 2025–2025 severa...
Historians and scholars use a mix of measurable metrics—economy, war leadership, legislative/administrative skill—and qualitative judgments—public persuasion, moral authority, and crisis management—to...
Claims that “Trump is the 3rd best president” are not supported by major expert surveys and most national scholarly rankings cited in current reporting place Donald Trump near the bottom of historical...
A clear academic and popular consensus repeatedly places near the top of lists of America’s greatest presidents, with Lincoln frequently ranked first in recent scholar surveys and FDR and Washington f...
Scholarly presidential rankings are structured surveys of historians and political scientists that score presidents on multiple leadership dimensions and then average those scores, while public-opinio...
Historians and legal scholars do not share a single roll call of Insurrection Act invocations because they apply different counting rules: some count every presidential proclamation or statutory precu...