Today marks the 242nd birthday of the United States. We’re certainly looking forward to the parades, ballgames, barbecues and other celebrations of our peculiar experiment in self-governance.We’re also looking forward to the fireworks displays, albeit with some trepidation. After a ...

Amid President Trump's war on American mainstream journalism as "fake news," an offended reader of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., shot and killed five editorial workers in its newsroom Thursday, with no indication that anything Trump had said had anything to do with the tragedy.The ...

Concerned about expansion of executive power? You'd better vote.A president who wields power like few before him has received a stunning — and disconcerting — affirmation from the U.S. Supreme Court of just how expansive his reach is, at least as regards immigration.It is a ruling that ...

The late-night hosts hate President Donald Trump, so the idea that they would make friendly alliances shouldn't be shocking. But as we've come to understand, in today's world anything that reflects negatively on this president becomes "news." So when Stephen Colbert at CBS called up Jimmy ...

No agency or department of the U.S. government has unlimited power, but enforcing and maintaining the limits on power is often easier said than done.One example of this is the fight between House Republicans and top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice over documents that Congress has ...

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