Like the original paranoid advocate for an imperial presidency, Trump wants to use tax records to punish enemies. Unlike ...

Half a century ago, Congress protected its power of the purse, and conservatives balked at letting presidents disobey ...

While in some ways he was an early culture warrior, Richard Nixon expanded federal power and the vast federal bureaucracy.

There were some indications that the president’s appointees were politicizing the agency in ways unseen since Watergate. The emerging picture is now worse.

Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.

John Lennon found himself in a legal battle with President Richard Nixon's administration and facing deportation over his ...