Peter Baker

The launch of Artemis II captured the tenor of the times in a country that can still do big things but seems forever mired in big problems.

No president since the Apollo era has pushed harder to return to the moon than President Trump. But he wants a space achievement that is about “more than getting rocks this time.”

In a new set of oral histories, David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s political adviser, described how he urged Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. not to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nominat...

The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger.

In opening a military campaign against Iran, President Trump is the first president in modern times to take the United States to war without the backing of the public.

President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con ma...

President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around...

The Trump team has advanced one-sided narratives to justify each of the killings, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.

After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.

The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent.