The lame duck Buchanan tried to appease the South to no avail. With his hands full at home, Buchanan's foreign policy was limited to attempts to influence the Americas. Efforts to annex Cuba ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... The story of Mr. Buchanan's courtship and contretemps with his lady-love which induced him to live and die ...

President-elect James Buchanan had no idea what was happening to his body. But political Washington had its suspicions.

James Buchanan had tried for the Democratic nomination several times and finally succeeded in 1856, in large part because as Ambassador to Great Britain, he had been absent during the controversies ...

This is not about James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, this is about the economist James Buchanan, the leading figure in public choice theory. The connection to politics, however, ...