The Trump administration's militarization of US cities – apparently selected because of their partisan divergence from the White House – represents a failure of federalism, according to Aziz Huq in a ...

Is there diversity in the American Constitution? Michael Barone explains the origin of his theory. In this episode of "The Civic Discourse Project" lecture series, Michael D. Barone, a senior ...

From our colonial origins to our Constitution and beyond, Americans have found ways to unite. The nature of the Union is unique, however. Unlike the sovereign European monarchies of the 17th to 20th ...

The American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's threat of mass layoffs during the shutdown. NPR speaks with the union's president Everett Kelley.

In a shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are furloughed or work without pay, government offices close, national parks may become inaccessible, and many federal services halt.