One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

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Every four years, between 73 and 79 days after the presidential election, Inauguration Day takes place. It’s a time when the ...

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists David Brooks, Ross ...

Presidential inaugurations are by definition historic acts, but when we think of past Inauguration Days there is clearly a ...

The 46th president's successes and failures — and the predecessors who invite the closest comparisons to Joe Biden as he ...

The Navy vessels will be the first to bear the names of former presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.

President Joe Biden announced that the next two aircraft carriers will be named after former Presidents Bill Clinton and ...

While the White House publicized the decision, the responsibility and authority to name ships lies squarely in the hands of ...