It is often the case that ambitious volumes of history fall short of providing any fresh answers to, or even clearer interpretations of, the big questions such books inevitably set themselves to address..

Former President Ronald Reagan, icon of modern conservatism, began as a New Deal Democrat from a liberal family before leaning to the right in the 1940s and '50s - and retained his admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to Western Kentucky political science professor Edward Yager...

Early this spring, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had unveiled his proposal for a $68 billion state spending spree on roads, schools and prisons, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez visited Schwarzenegger in the governor's Capitol office with a counter-proposal....

Our nation’s 40th President Ronald Reagan, will go down in history as one of the foremost thinkers of our time...