Barack Obama

Donald Trump is shunning the “ex-presidents club” — and the feeling is mutual

For over 75 years, U.S. presidents and first families have taken part in a long-honored tradition of going by nicknames symbolic of their personalities or legacies.

Steve Kerrigan produced both President Obama’s 2009 and 2013 inaugurations and served as a senior adviser to President Biden’s inaugural committee. He shares why inaugurations are such a “uniquely American experience,” and how Aretha Franklin helped create his favorite inauguration moment.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt declared at his inauguration. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country,” said John F. Kennedy at his swearing-in ceremony. We looked back at some of the most inspiring quotes in inauguration history from Roosevelt, Kennedy, Dwight D....

Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn’t wish someone else was chief justice of the United States.

Did you know Ulysses S. Grant’s inauguration was so cold that the champagne froze? Or that Richard Nixon accidentally poisoned all the pigeons along his parade route? These are just a few of the weirdest moments in inauguration history. And because ice cream is a favorite treat of President-elect Joe Biden, we’re telling these stories through sundaes.

As people across the country and the world protest the treatment of black Americans and the killing of George Floyd, and as some U.S. cities impose curfews due to incidents of looting and violence, former President Barack Obama suggests a next step: vote local.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer has reignited outrage against racism and police brutality. But there’s another crisis that needs to be addressed — in the workplace. Here’s what managers can do to support their employees.

It’s a step Twitter has resisted taking for all of Trump’s presidency.

The era of trade liberalization is over, and it will be difficult for the incoming Biden administration to re-join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to Control Risks.

Twitter announced on Friday that it has permanently suspended President Donald Trump from the platform for using language that was “highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol.”

Trump announced his decision that he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration one day after he finally conceded the November presidential election.

“China is laughing at us and saying we’re not the model of democracy … we have always been lecturing the rest of the world to embrace,” Gary Locke told CNBC.

The judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general. Here are five things to know about Merrick Garland.

“For two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has too often been unwilling to tell their followers the truth,” wrote Obama.

Former Defense Secretary Hagel called the riot on Capitol Hill “shameful” and discussed whether or not Pence will initiate the 25th Amendment.

Past associates of lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti say he has rejected requests to lobby his brother, longtime Biden advisor Steve Ricchetti.

The pardons by Trump went to ex0Republican congressmen, Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians, and two people convicted in the Mueller probe.

Users following the institutional accounts will have the chance to opt to continue following them once they change hands, according a Twitter spokesperson.

Reading the same books and watching the same TV shows as Barack Obama may not guarantee you the same level of success as the former president, but it can’t hurt.