Happy Halloween from the Scariest Haunted House of All: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 

In Depth

From administration to administration, you can count on one thing about the White House: These nerds love to clown. They especially love to clown on Halloween, often to terrifying effect.

How are children supposed to develop a healthy relationship to their civic responsibilities after watching their president and his wife emerge from the yawning mouth of a Jack-O-Lantern?

They kept that pumpkin around during the Clinton administration, too.

The secret is out: Ryan Murphy’s next project will be American Horror Story: The Carter Administration.

A bipartisan selection of press secretaries have participated in the shenanigans.

Al Gore, what are you doing?

Even the Obamas have gotten into the game, with these genuinely unsettling eyes peering out from the White House.

And, of course, the current presidential candidates are participating this year, by forcing us to contemplate the prospect of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.

 
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