President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson ...

Some of the problems, however, that motivate populists aren’t problems at all, and populist anger is rooted in something else ...

Rachel Maddow mocked Donald Trump for thinking he has a “big Trump mandate” for latest threat Trump called for a U.S.-led ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and funding for underserved students.

The president said he planned sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports on Monday and would take other action to even out tariff rates with the rest of the world later this week.

Trump sees the “deep state” as an impediment to policy change, not as an instrument of it; he attacks the idea of a nonpartisan civil service and the civil service itself. Government workers are ...