By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

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

Trump is targeting courts across the country as judges block several of his decisions. The move has already been tried by ...

Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President ... Jackson was just exiting the U.S. Capitol ...

It was the first known assassination attempt on a U.S. president ... of England—with only “King Andrew” standing in his way. The months following Jackson’s attempted assassination played ...

Every president redesigns the Oval Office upon entry into it. In Donald Trump’s Oval Office hangs a portrait of the seventh ...

Federal judges have already limited some of Trump and DOGE's most sweeping ambitions.