With unilateral freezes and cuts, President Trump is testing how far he can encroach on Congress’s power of the purse.

Wielding hundreds of executive orders, Donald Trump has set about reshaping the US government during his first month in ...

White House seeks sway over FCC, FEC, FTC and some Fed operations. Politics professor Sarah Binder says it "grabs power from ...

President Trump claims power over independent regulators in a new order. NPR asks Jane Manners, law professor at Temple University, why independent agencies were created to be independent.

Her departure will reduce the conservative minority on the bench to only one, Justice Brian Zahra, with a Democratic governor to make the appointment to replace her.

The billionaire technocrat joined President Donald Trump Tuesday night in an interview on Fox News’ Hannity, to attempt to ...

Constitutional separation of powers safeguards individual rights, limits private entities, promotes the rule of law and ...

The Navy is also taking more of its training programs offline -- the latest in a series of quiet reviews, policy changes and website removals spurred by a pair of presidential orders.

Most in a new poll said the system of checks and balances in the U.S. government is not working well. When asked about the ...

Political lobbying is again at a heightened spending level, and again being criticized, making it important to remember lobbying’s legality and importance.

Even though they blame it for plunging the country into war, the Lebanese are turning to Hezbollah, whose resources remain ...

Last week, while my husband and I were engaged in a lively debate about politics during a drive, our son Marco unexpectedly joined the conversation. To our surp ...