Washington, D.C., the heart of American democracy, is once again at the center of a heated battle over who gets to call ...

Civil rights leaders say Trump, a longtime antagonist, is overreaching by taking over policing in the nation's capital.

As the old saying goes, “all roads lead to Rome.” In America today, with its rapidly collapsing democracy, all roads lead to ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History are holders of some ...

Trump then smashed and bullied his way through his first 100 days, ruling via dictator-like decrees — executive orders — and carrying out retribution at every turn. Democracy’s redlines were crossed ...

Conservative attorney and prominent Trump critic George Conway has warned that President Donald Trump could announce a U.S. withdrawal from NATO as soon as Monday night — or at least claim to do so, ...

The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were ...

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of records in accordance with an executive order from January.

Trump’s threat follows his claims that Putin agreed 2020 election was ‘rigged’ because of vote-by-mail ballots ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers remain outside of the state in an attempt to deny their GOP colleagues the quorum to vote on an ...