As President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House winds down, he has already transformed and upended the federal ...

Claims about deportations, the Department of Government Efficiency, and someone fainting in the White House were among the mistruths that kept PolitiFact busy in 2025 — and they featured in some of ...

Editor’s note: Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative ...

Months after the federal government stopped issuing and accepting paper checks for most of its business, the Federal Reserve announced it’s considering a slowdown of those services as well. In a ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

At an NYU Law Forum on October 22, former government officials and constitutional law scholars examined the current state of the American system of checks and balances designed to restrain the ...

President Donald Trump pushed back on one of the biggest obstacles to his plan to provide most Americans $2,000 checks from the success of tariffs. "Next year is projected to be the largest tax refund ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

“The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

Talk of President Donald Trump's promised $2,000 stimulus checks continues to circulate, but there has been little concrete information on the proposal since he discussed it on social media. Though ...

The headcount reduction by the federal government reached 97,000 since January, including a further reduction of 3,000 civilian employees in September. State governments have shed 25,000 employees ...