Federal judges have lifetime tenure, and foreign leaders answer to their own citizenry. For now, they’re acting as the emergency brakes on Trump as he pushes to remake the world.

Former speechwriters for previous presidential administrations weighed in on President Donald Trump’s expansive speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening.

With heavy tariffs and overtures to Russia, Trump embraces a worldview starkly different from that of the conservative icon.

Ms. Davis is the author of “Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory and the America We Once Knew.” ...

In 1983, as Ronald Reagan went on an executive-order spree, The Nation sounded the alarm about very kind of presidential overreach we’re seeing from Trump today.

The "Golden Dome" missile defense system proposed by President Donald Trump will require a whole-of-government effort to ...

President Trump highlighted the many actions his administration has taken in the past six weeks, including drastic cuts to ...

Typically, a State of the Union is delivered to a joint session of Congress inside the House of Representatives chamber. The idea of a State of the Union is written into the United States ...

The political stars have aligned in the West for Sagebrush Rebellion 2.0. Will it succeed where past attempts have failed?

The late Republican president’s foreign policy mantra has become the talking point of the Trump administration. But even ...

President Donald Trump told lawmakers that U.S. astronauts will one day carry the American flag to Mars and beyond during a ...

Lent seems the perfect antidote to the frightening political theater we witnessed Tuesday night in Washington, when a ...