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 ...

The cartoonist and writer proved that the deadliest skewering is informed by understanding. Jeet Heer After watching Gore ...

The announcement of the freeze set off panic and confusion across the country. The result could be a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power, with the ...

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

Trump's Republican administration has framed the halt to federal grants and loans as a brief pause that would allow for an across-the-board review to align spending with his ideological agenda, rather ...

With low unemployment, rising incomes and inflation down to a third of its peak in 2022, it raises the question of just how good an economy President-elect Donald Trump stands to inherit when he ...

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday issued a sweeping directive to federal agencies to temporarily pause ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...