The Speaker of the House at the turn of the twentieth century could not resist imperialism and quietly resigned.

James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer will deliver the October Bradley Lecture.

Representative Thomas B. Reed of Maine, three times Speaker of the House of Representatives in the final quarter of the 19th century, stood for all the Republican verities but one: he could not abide his party’s imperialist...

The way our military hospitals treat wounded soldiers is execrable.

A new global survey finding growing anti-Americanism was given wide play.

Thomas Reed was an important, if often forgotten, speaker of the House.

Jane Perlez's and William Wan's articles in today's papers (the New York Times and Washington Post, respectively) stand as a minor but important milestone in elite understanding of international relations in the 21st century. Though they provide only a summary of a Brookings monograph - the product...

Like all our political institutions, the presidency has evolved with the growth of the nation and the pace of change in the modern world. Three key changes come to mind.