Author: David M. Shribman

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe... Read more.

One year, he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “very bad for our country.” The next year, he... Read more.

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry … he is out of control … you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed... Read more.

In the White House, the walls don’t have ears. They have voices. Wander through its corridors, as Donald Trump will soon do, and you might hear the presidential... Read more.

MONTREAL — With ice clumping on the sidewalks, with winds swirling between downtown buildings, and with white mountains growing in designated snow-deposit sites... Read more.

David M. Shribman BOUCHERVILLE, Quebec — Macaroons. Chocolate eggs. Candy polar bears, lambs, owls and bunnies. A 3-foot-tall figure from “Lord of the Rings,”... Read more.

MONTREAL — Irwin Cotler arrived at a restaurant in this city’s Mile End neighborhood in a mini motorcade of six vehicles, all of them holding Canadian security... Read more.

There’s nothing like a clear election victory to clear away a constitutional crisis. Or to set one in motion. The result: Jan. 6, 2025, will be a bore. But Jan.... Read more.

Nearly lost in the week’s news — the nomination of an iconoclast to run the nation’s health agency who is at odds with the nation’s health experts, and an... Read more.

The ballots are counted (and in some few places, recounted). The blame is being distributed (but only in one of the two parties). The lawn signs have been struck... Read more.