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

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

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

Appeal Could Make It Easier for Companies to Spread Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate Despite the Trump ...

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

In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon told a national television audience that he would resign the following day. Nixon’s announcement, while historic, was not unexpected.

Federal judges are ruling against some of President Trump's executive orders. But who enforces a judicial ruling against the president? NPR asks University of Texas law professor Tara Grove. Federal ...

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