Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of ...

Congress hasn’t formally declared war in more than 80 years. Here's how President Donald Trump's decision on Iran reflects a growing presidential trend.

Protesters fill the Iowa state Capitol to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections ...

Among President Donald Trump’s lizard-brain intuitions is that Americans are overwhelmed by choice. This exhaustion is a strangely underexplored reason for his appeal; it may even help explain why his ...

Heads of state and heads of government just about never decide to kill each other, even in wartime. For if you to do it to them, then they may do it to you.

At what point does one quit trying to keep winning the last political party primary? At one point does one stop trying to play to the perceived whims of a base and simply just govern? Gov. Patrick ...