President Trump is testing principle of "checks and balances" like rarely before, signing executive orders, closing or sharply reducing government agencies, and denigrating judges who ruled against ...

John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic ...

When white smoke rose over the Vatican. A dispatch from Rome, where Robert Francis Prevost addressed the crowd for the first ...

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Vice President JD Vance again embarrassed himself, Ohio and his office by calling some past presidents, including Washington, ...