A federal judge ordered Donald Trump to end his pause on federal spending. Trump said if a president can’t look for fraud, we ...

We disagree so much in this country that it’s heartening to find an idea that nearly everybody supports—at least generally.

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

Federal judges across the country have flexed their authority at President Donald Trump as he moves to rapidly reshape the government.

As courts block parts of his agenda, President Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up criticism of judges and continuing to question judicial oversight of the executive branch. While he's said he ...

Trump may ultimately defy judges and the rule of law, but at first he’ll bid for Supreme Court recognition of vastly expanded ...

President Trump wants interest rates to be lowered and said he spoke with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

In 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall first expressed the principle that while Congress makes the laws and the president ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the 1832 case Worcester v. Georgia, so the story goes, President Andrew ...

But at a press conference at the White House yesterday, Donald Trump sat dumbly and looked off into space as Musk showed a lack of understanding of this system. Musk was asked about his “hostile ...

The lawsuit filed last week to halt the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

But their approach  — which one prominent Democrat characterized as ‘flagrantly violating the law’ — is drawing legal ...