Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plan is in trouble as multiple GOP hardliners seek last-minute changes that could risk support ...

Progressives have the presidency they have long desired but a president they abhor. James Madison warned them: “Enlightened ...

It has only been roughly three weeks of the Trump administration. For many, it feels like a lifetime already. But do not ...

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

Economic inequality has grown to the level where it drives American society's contemporary centrifugal tendency. The ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

In the opening days of his second presidency, the malignant, orange-sprayed fascist maniac Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump has, in the words of the ...

Early in the year, the significant legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King resonates strongly. The third Monday in January is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, providing an occasion for reflection ...

Figuring out the ever-changing political landscape in the United States can be challenging. This is especially the case if you don’t have a firm grip on the country’s different political ideologies.

And those achievements rested less on Roosevelt’s political vision than on the political mobilization ... LBJ’s Great Society President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs declared a war on ...

The primary source of government waste and inefficiency isn’t a bloated civil service that’s insufficiently “loyal” to the president. It’s the opposite. Federal agencies have too few civil servants to ...

During the long reign of the Democratic Party in Mississippi, Eastland was considered by many the “godfather” of politics in the state. Johnson, Sr., served as a Mississippi congressman in 1919-23, ...