During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is ...

The cartoonist and writer proved that the deadliest skewering is informed by understanding. Jeet Heer After watching Gore ...

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

Trump vowed to rid the Justice Department of what he says is partisan bias. Ex-officials say he's using retaliation and ...

The announcement of the freeze set off panic and confusion across the country. The result could be a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power, with the ...