A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of ...

It's the first time the Supreme Court will decide whether the president has the power to deploy troops in American cities ...

The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution. Rooted ...

The government has shut down 21 times since 1977, and Congress is still breaking records for the longest fiscal standoffs.

More than forty members of Congress, including military veterans, are urging President Donald Trump to not violate the Posse Comitatus Act by using U.S. Armed Forces against Americans on American soil ...

Speaking to troops aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in Japan, President Donald Trump boasted that he can send any branch of America’s armed forces into U.S. cities as part of his anti-crime ...

In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least ...

Experts told PBS News that worries about the Insurrection Act arise from legal uncertainty about how it can be applied.

The Insurrection Act has been used on 30 occasions in U.S. history, according to a think tank. It hasn’t been used in more than 30 years. Seventeen of the country’s 45 presidents, about 37%, have ...

U.S. President Donald Trump accurately relayed that half of U.S. presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act.

Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday, Oct. 1, after President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to avert a lapse in federal funding. Republicans have rejected Democrats' ...