Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a ...

It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

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Trump’s attempt to, even temporarily, pause federal grants and loans most likely flies in the face of our constitutionally ...

Editor’s note: This article is one in a five-part series looking back on the life of one of Duke’s most infamous alumni — Richard Nixon. Read the following installments recounting Nixon’s ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

President Donald Trump, beginning his voyage last month into his second four-year term in the White House, has assembled ...

This, experts say, allows Trump to embrace corporate and individual gifts in a more brazen way that mirrors another president he has been compared to — Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century ...