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Donald Trump’s embrace of the unitary executive theory inches closer to the “very definition of tyranny” that James Madison ...

Trump hints at a nuclear arms deal and Ukraine peace settlement at Davos. Is this a Reagan-style move or a dangerous concession to Putin?

A federal judge gently hints that Trump’s lawyer might consider a change of location and extinguishes the dung—for now.

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

Trump policies are bad enough, but the worldviews that undergird them are the graver problem from the front lines to the ...

Last week, the U.S. president seemed open to linking Ukraine peace talks with a new arms control negotiation. That’s just what the Russian leader wants because it increases the chance that Trump will ...

President Trump's flood-the-zone strategy is overwhelming but his setback on birthright citizenship is a good sign.