Way back in the day, before things started getting complicated during the 1970s and 1980s, federal government budgeting was a ...

While right-wing populism surges in some of the world’s leading democracies, Chile’s leftist government is rushing in the ...

There could be more because the federal government does not release data on how often U.S. citizens are wrongfully detained ...

As G.O.P. lawmakers have largely ceded power to President Trump, they are also pushing the bounds of a little-known statute ...

More generally, a larger budget deficit will require the government to borrow more money, which drives up interest rates.

The Justice Department unit that ensures compliance with voting rights laws will switch its focus to investigating voter ...

The nonprofit named for Sen. John McCain underscores a chasm between his worldview and the Trump era. Its annual forum is ...

It is often the privileged, the safest people on earth, who are least capable of courage. They fear, as Brecht put it, that ...

A move to rename and bifurcate Veterans Day could leave out the historic contributions of millions of veterans, critics ...

But on his 99th day in office, just to kind of give the coup de grace to the two-figured counting of dismal days, President ...

Trump is planning a major downsizing at the CIA and other spy agencies. In other news: Trump this week named eight new ...

After a frenzied week of small group meetings, leadership listening sessions and private committee discussions, House ...