Trump issued executive orders that revoked security details for former National Security Advisor John Bolton, former CIA ...

How did crusading journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi become right-wing trolls? Let Eoin Higgins explain ...

Executive orders allow a US president to take action without the approval of Congress. They can also be overturned by Congress. But a president retains the power to veto such a decision, which in turn ...

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...

At Trump’s inauguration, it was somehow quite life-affirming to see Hillary and W., who happened to be seated near each other at the cramped ceremony, both be unable to contain the need to smirk — to ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

The case raises a Constitutional question about the power of a president to impound funds that were authorized by Congress, ...

Nominees have for decades pledged to refuse illegal presidential orders, but many of Trump’s nominees suddenly won’t.

In little more than a week, the Trump administration has fired people who prosecuted the president and reassigned other career officials.

President Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the naval base brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian asylum seekers there starting in the early ...

President Trump at moments of national tragedy has always been more comfortable finding fault than providing comfort or ...

It has always surprised me,” wrote the 20th-century Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, “that in a world of relations as ...