The clearest early warning came from a mathematician who helped invent the field of automated control itself.

The tension between national security and political dissent did not arrive with the modern surveillance state.

Few questions in American government are as consequential, or as poorly answered by the founding text, as this one: who has the power to fire the people who run the executive branch?

To understand why American law eventually built such powerful protections for criticism of public officials, it helps to start with the system those protections were designed to overturn.

When a president owns a hotel, holds stock in a company, or has children running a global business, a plain question follows: what stops the most powerful official in the country from steering public decisions toward…

In the decades after the Civil War, the United States built the world's largest industrial economy, and the corporations and trusts that ran it learned to treat politics as another market.

The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a September 15 sale of oil-and-gas leases across 2,840 acres of the Wayne National Forest, the decisive step toward fracking Ohio's only national forest for the first time, on an environmental review that conservation groups are still fighting in court.

In a 6-3 ruling the Court erased the last major post-Watergate cap on how much party committees may spend hand in hand with their own candidates, overruling a 2001 precedent.

The Dutch government has finalized a decree that, from September 22, makes it illegal to import, sell, or broker goods from illegal Israeli settlements, making the Netherlands the latest EU state to act alone while the bloc stays deadlocked.

The administration paused more than a billion dollars in federal Medicaid payments to two Democratic-run states over "suspected fraud," but produced no specific cases and gave the states no methodology, reviving a long fight over who controls the federal purse.