Pardons were flying all over Washington on Monday like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing “pre-emptive” pardons to five members of his ...

Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America's Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents in the model of the Presidency as the pinnacle of America's democracy. An elected ...

The Federal Reserve is nearly certain to keep its key interest rate unchanged at its policy meeting this week, just a few days after President Donald Trump said he would soon demand lower rates.

These promotional efforts have continued even though American democracy is far from a finished product and has always suffered from a number of obvious design flaws: elections won by candidates who ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. So at the last conference, the ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House has been decidedly more overwhelming than the opening days of his first ...

Palestinians began arriving in northern Gaza, months after Israel ordered them to flee. The Israel-Hamas truce was holding ...

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