Ronald Reagan

The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), signed into law by President Ronald Reagan, aimed to overhaul U.S. immigration policy. It offered legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants who had lived in the country since before January 1, 1982. It did this through two legalization…

In this address to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, President Reagan presents his view of the Soviet Union. The President defends America's Judeo-Christian traditions against the Soviet Union's totalitarian leadership and lack of religious faith, expressing…

Editorial cartoon shows President Ronald Reagan and counselor Edwin Meese riding in a limo, looking out the window at the poor and homeless sleeping on grates and commenting on their plight.

On November 2, 1986, an American hostage was released by an Iranian group that had held him captive for more than seventeen months. It was soon reported that his release was linked to a transfer of military spare parts to Iran.

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Before there were Western states, there were public lands—over a billion acres irrevocably reserved for the people of the United States. The Sagebrush Rebels are the most recent in a series of covetous groups bent on “regaining” what was never theirs.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In a new book, the political journalist and columnist Richard Reeves retraces Alexis de Tocqueville’s remarkable 1831-32 journey through America. Reeves's conclusion: Tocqueville not only deserves his reputation as the greatest observer of our democracy—he is an incomparable guide to what is happening in our country now.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An old, familiar show is back in Washington. There’s a new cast, of course, but the script is pretty much the same as ever. Here’s the program.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">It depends on whose interpretation of both history and the current crisis you believe. For one of America’s most prominent supply-side economists, the answer is yes.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A year ago, we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted that this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the republic.</span></p>

<p>Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise, the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.</p>

<p>"Gosh, it would be fun to play a president of the United States," said Lieutenant Reagan.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a richer time than we thought.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A long-time Republican-party insider and close student of its past discusses how the party has changed over the years, for better and for worse, and where it may be headed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> THIRTY YEARS AGO, A HARD-FOUGHT</lead_in> gubernatorial campaign heralded the third great political upheaval of our century.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">…and grow, and grow, from almost no employees to three million. Don’t blame the welfare state, or the military; the truth is much more interesting.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The English journalist has spent more than a decade preparing a book on this country’s role in the most eventful hundred years since the race began. He liked what he found enough to become an American himself.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Americans won’t choose a president who chides them.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How bad is it when presidents get <span class="typestyle"> really</span> sore? </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When the two parties gather to select their candidates, the proceedings will be empty glitz, with none of the import of old-time conventions. Or will they?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From Berlin to Washington to Area 51, landmarks of the era are opening up to tourists.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A recent presidential edict will make it harder for historians to practice their trade.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Six aspects of the man - three personal and three political - hint at how posterity will view him.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In their surprisingly short history, presidential debates have never lived up to our expectations. Yet they’ve always proved invaluable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An incidental, oddly enduring acquaintance</span></p>

<p>My chat with President Reagan in the Oval Office about term limits</p>

<p><span class="deck"> All the President’s Movies</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Now you can lift a glass to the President’s memory in his ancestral shebeen—but, alas, there will be only water in it </span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subject</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why have our presidents almost always stumbled after the first four years?</span></p>

<p>Nixon, Ford, and Carter developed a friendship of sorts on a memorable flight to Cairo to honor the recently slain Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat.</p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 25th anniversary of two famous Reagan speeches, the former Speaker of the House asks why we haven’t learned more from the 40th president.</span></p>

<p>Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight.</p>

<p>In one day, the stock market plummeted 22 percent shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve.</p>

<p>The Trump Administration has proposed massive cuts to history programs whose mission is to teach Americans what made their country great</p>

<p>Largely unknown to his cabinet, Ronald Reagan broke with previous U.S. policy and initiated a global campaign of economic and political warfare against the Soviets.</p>

<p>Critics saw him as weak, but, in his single term in office, Carter had significant achievements in foreign affairs, the environmental, and energy policy.</p>

<p>Reagan's commitment to deregulation, aggressive military spending, and diminished oversight created an appearance of corruption that some critics claimed was worse than Watergate.</p>