It is amazing that the State Department’s “one flag” directive could be controversial. Even more amazing is how we got here ...

First codified in 1923 by, I shit you not, the National Americanism Commission, the Flag Code was officially written into law ...

In a proclamation issued Dec. 29, Biden ordered flags across the U.S. to be flown at half-staff for 3 days "in honor and tribute to the memory of President James Earl Carter Jr. and as an expression ...

Tony Evers ordered flags to fly at half-staff in remembrance of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29. How long will flags ... the longest-living former American president in the ...

Here's what to know about why flags are lowered when a president dies, who can issue that order and how long the process lasts ... should fly higher than the American flag on the same pole ...