The 47th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

It’s a problem of our billionaire political economy. Democracy in America ... there was a lot of talk comparing Trump to Andrew Jackson, the slaveholder genocidaire. The point of that comparison ...

This had devastating effects on the economy throughout the course of his successor Martin Van Buren’s presidency. Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of ...

Though Jackson had a political advantage, his campaign aimed mostly to defend him, and promoting his programs for governmental reform and the economy were a secondary ... the genre of presidential ...

Died: June 8, 1845. Economic policy cemented Jackson's legacy as a populist. When South Carolina nullified a federal tariff that displeased the state, Jackson threatened to collect the funds at ...

To that end, he wants to impose tariffs on pretty much everyone — including the nation’s largest trading partners — as part of a broader scheme to revive a quasi-mercantilist economy.

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded ... Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of ...