The Latest Breaking News from Ronald Reagan

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history

Many of Princess Diana's closest confidents have claimed the People's Princess wanted to move to America and was lined up for a major Hollywood film role

For decades Republicans have owned the concept of "freedom." What they're really pushing is suffering and death

Katharine Hamnett, Clive Sinclair, Ronald Reagan… 1985 was a year packed with incident, as reflected in the Observer’s review of the past 12 months

BALTIMORE — Republican state Sen. Chris West spent much of a dispiriting election night driving to various GOP candidate celebrations that turned out to be anything but.

The administration is not likely to accept a rail strike for long

The prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike is looming again.

Arthur Laffer, the Reagan-era guru of trickle-down economics, was unchastened by the deficit explosion back then, which effectively disproved his theory that cutting taxes on the rich would increase government tax revenue. According to a recent Washington Post writeup, Laffer continues to be unchastened now, even as Britain reels from…

“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.” That’s the novelist J.G. Ballard, explaining why he wrote what is arguably the most important novel of the 1970s, the scandalous Crash.