When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do politicians do it at all?

He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age.” He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...

President Donald Trump’s latest inaugural speech was notable not for its inclusion of God but for the specific personal nature of what he said.

President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second, nonconsecutive term in the White House Jan. 20, becoming the nation’s 47th ...

Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global ...

It’s a cruel policy because if it were adopted, it would impact children mostly. It would impact future generations, and, as ...

One theme that stands out clearly is the inscrutability and transcendence of God. In a passage in the book of Isaiah, God ...

Restored to power, President Trump claimed that God put him there and asserted the right to single-handedly redraw the world ...

In a day punctuated by prayer and references to God, Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday as the 47th president of the United ...

Although presidents and other government officials have historically sworn the oath on a Bible, the Constitution doesn’t require it.

You can watch all Inauguration Day events Monday on our livestream here, find a planned lineup of events, review ...