As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home in Pacific Palisades. Ronald Reagan was thinking of trying his hand at politics: a long-shot bid for California governor against a sitting Democrat.

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political consulting business along the way — has died.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice. That's what White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first

Ronald Reagan scribbled a note in 1989 to his successor above an elephant cartoon. The tradition, started perhaps inadvertently, was continued by Joe Biden.

In the 40 years leading up to Trump’s first election victory, real hourly wages for Americans without college degrees — 64 percent of the population — actually shrank. Wages for workers with high school degrees dipped from $19.25 to $18.57, while workers who didn’t complete high school experienced a decline from $15.50 to $13.66.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

Within days of President Donald Trump's inauguration, one Republican lawmaker in Tennessee is proposing to rename Nashville International Airport to "Trump international Airport."

If there is one certainty in politics these days, it’s that the status quo rarely holds. And when one party has the White House, the House and the Senate, history tells us that new status quo has a shelf life of closer to two years than four.

Roosevelt pronounced America as the “arsenal of democracy." Continuing through Ronald Reagan's infamous command to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin, no living citizen of the U.S. has resided in an ...