The United States federal government, whether you feel it is a beacon of democracy or a symbol of modern political gridlock, ...

Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up ... by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three ...

Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day.

The Constitution separates the power of government into three distinct branches. The legislative branch makes the laws. It is run by US Congress and it's made up of the Senate and the House of ...

The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be disincentives to protect against bad behavior.

At the national level, they created three different branches of government to administer three different types of power. The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses ...

Readers point out that the cost of tariffs are passed onto American consumers. Other readers sound alarms about preserving democracy.