Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost ...

John M. Bridgeland, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Alan Khazei, co-founder of the education ...

Generally, two possible diplomatic approaches to dealing with unpredictability are minimising it and making oneself unpredictable.

We know that U.S. vice presidents are often the objects of humorous jabs for their secondary role in the executive branch or their public mishaps.

I am 100 percent certain that unpredictability redounded to the benefit of the United States.” The Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid recently argued that Trump’s madman strategy pressured Israel ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

President Richard M. Nixon told Americans the war had ended, the Paris Peace Accords would be signed, and U.S. soldiers would come home.

Robin Wright reports on D.C.’s real power players. Plus: our writers on Trump’s Day One; revisiting Philip Roth’s “The Plot ...

Asia can teach the world about adapting to Trump.

The murky disappearances of critical archives point further to the high-level involvement of the ruling apparatuses in the US ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called his preemptive pardon from former President Biden, announced Monday for all past members ...

Richard Nixon recorded the lowest approval rating in history—24 percent—just before resigning in August 1974 amid the ...