This article is part of a series, called Civics & Civility, focused on explaining how government works and encouraging dialogue and understanding among Butler County residents. Greg Hayward ...

The president is positioning himself to have much greater control over a smaller, enfeebled federal bureaucracy.

A judge allowed the administration's mass layoffs to proceed, while a key appeals court ruling on the president's order to ...

The president sees himself as national king, and every other American—including Maine Governor Janet Mills—as one of his ...

The president’s power grab over federal agencies is the latest example of his use of the controversial legal theory.

His bold order putting ‘independent agencies’ under White House control echoes the Founders.

The bounds of presidential power can be hazy, and the Republican-appointed supermajority on the Supreme Court could expand ...

P resident Donald Trump has a fondness for giving himself nicknames: “ very stable genius ,” “ Honest Don ,” and now “the ...

A young technologist known online as “Big Balls,” who works for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has access to sensitive US government systems. But his ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that the United States' federal government is lurching toward an unabashed oligarchy, with the Trump administration actively cutting ...