He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a ...

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

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President Donald Trump, beginning his voyage last month into his second four-year term in the White House, has assembled ...

The new film “Peter Hujar’s Day”, which recently premiered at Sundance, is based on the transcript of a 1974 conversation ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

President Donald Trump drew a great deal of criticism from Democrats as well as from Never Trump conservatives when he fired ...

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is ...