For 236 years the United States has benefited from a government built on effective checks and balances among its three ...

Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation have gained influence at a time when Congress itself is losing power ...

Little Marco. Remember when Donald Trump used to call Marco Rubio that? Trump was obviously referring to Rubio’s short ...

When I was a kid, maybe in sixth grade we had civics class. I learned that there are three branches of government. They were ...

Senators and representatives from both parties have turned Congress into a quasi-parliament, not a check on the power of the executive.

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I have been getting strange texts on my phone for months now. The two most memorable catchphrases I can recall are “third ...

Power. Like money, is nothing if you have enough, but everything if you don’t. But what is it? Who has it, and what are those ...

The federal bureaucracy is under a microscope as Elon Musk and his DOGE gang run roughshod over key government agencies ...

If anyone has felt the sting of an unchecked president, it’s Kate McCarthy. Until Jan. 31, McCarthy worked for a federal contractor working with the U.S. Agency for International Development. That’s ...

How the self described "world's coolest dictator," El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, has been embraced by the Trump administration.

DETROW: Trump has made it clear that one of the key goals of his second term is to shrink the size and scope of the federal workforce and eliminate programs he doesn't like. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We ...