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Federal lawyers are asking an appeals court to reverse a recent decision in District Court in Oregon that blocked Trump’s deployment.

Oversight is the ability of Congress to ensure that the laws it passes are faithfully executed. This generally means asking questions, demanding information, convening hearings and holding the executive branch accountable for its actions.

Congress didn’t exactly lose its tariff power; it gave it away.

The new Russian Burevestnik missile has been under development for over 20 years. While few technical details are known, Russian officials claim that it can maneuver to bypass antimissile and air defense systems.

Architecture and heritage are never just bricks and mortar. They are instruments of memory, identity and power. And Trump knows this.

The end of American democracy is not a foregone conclusion, despite the unprecedented rate of its decline. It will depend, in part, on the choices made by every American.

The Bad Bunny Super Bowl saga may actually become an important political moment.

Trump's revenge prosecution against Letitia James is based on a law that is rarely prosecuted and which has resulted in even fewer convictions.

If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally characteristic of dictatorship.

Given that previous government layoffs specifically targeted health programs, more permanent reductions in programs that affect health care may be on the way.

The First Amendment protects speech across the political spectrum, even speech Americans do not like. Both liberal comedian Jon Stewart and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson have recently agreed on this.

While Trump and members of his administration are threatening liberal organizations and movements, research shows that the majority of political violence comes from people following right-wing ideologies.

It is tempting to dismiss political violence as a leftover from some “primitive” or “frontier” stage of American history, when politicians and their supporters supposedly lacked restraint or higher moral standards. But that is not the case.

The false information which circulated for years about vaccines "causing" autism now has dog owners adopting the same disinformation for their pets.

Dobson's focus on the family as the foundation of Christian civilization mobilized millions of American evangelicals politically—on a scale that previous leaders never approached.

Justices connected to the Federalist Society are about 10 percentage points more likely to cast a conservative vote than other justices, even other justices appointed by Republican presidents.