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 ...

A round of Trump layoffs hit all employees in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, except a small ...

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.

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 ...

and clothe the American people," a USDA spokesperson said in a statement. The messages are in a kind of gray zone for the Hatch Act, a law passed in the 1930s that prohibits federal employees in ...

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.

Congress and the White House are racing to avoid a partial government shutdown that could begin next week if a federal funding agreement isn’t reached. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have until ...

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 ...