Monday is Presidents’ Day. To get you in the proper celebratory mood, TWE presents its fourth annual Presidents’ Day quiz. This year, the quiz includes questions about some of America’s remarkable fi…

The Pew Research Center and CFR released a poll today on America’s Place in the World.  The results send a mixed message: Americans are reluctant to embrace world leadership, but they are also unwill…

Would you come out of retirement and put your record of never having lost an election on the line in a long-shot bid to be president? George Pataki is doing just that. The three-time governor of New …

Can the second be first? Rick Santorum certainly hopes so. In 2012, the former Pennsylvania senator finished second to the eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Now Santorum hopes to improve on that surp…

TWE has noted the birthdays of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marine Corps. But it hasn’t noted the birthday of the U.S. Navy. My research associate, Rachael Kauss, and my intern, Co…