Explore the gradual decline of American democracy, from the Tea Party to the Trump era, and the role of false friends in this ...

The current Donald Trump Administration is engaged in an ongoing campaign of ignoring and failing to comply with the law and the Constitution. Aside from attempting to impose its agenda without ...

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The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. This piece originally appeared in The New York Review of Books. We ...

The Indiana General Assembly is officially asking Congress to convene an unprecedented Convention of the States to consider adding congressional term limits to the U.S. Constitution. That makes ...

A behind-the-scenes legal effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution ... American Legislative Exchange Council. The group’s chair, David M. Walker, oversaw ...

Congress, in other words, holds the authority to control government expenditures ... a leading figure in the Constitutional Convention, wrote in the Federalist Papers that the power of the ...

foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government. (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-o ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department pushed to undo an "anti-Constitutional" ruling from ... Engelmayer's Saturday ruling blocked Department of Government Efficiency officials from ...

It could not even pay the American soldiers who fought in the war for independence. And some of those unpaid soldiers were beginning to protest. The protests frightened many people in power. The ...

A government efficiency panel threatens U.S. government competence and constitutional underpinnings ... are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Thomas J. Greitens is a professor and ...