The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency, starting well before Trump's time in the White House. The justices could take the next ...

From the ravages of the flood control scams emerged certain surnames, names not too difficult to identify, given their long ...

President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators ...

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States declared war against Japan the following ...

President Trump's efforts to reshape the executive branch and flex his presidential power are set to be tested at the Supreme ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court's conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency, starting well before Donald Trump's time in the White House.

As of June, America had more than 50 million immigrants. More than 15 percent of the country’s population was born elsewhere.

On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that ...