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The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing

By: Jamelle Bouie — 17 December 2025 at 20:17

Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises

By: Carl Hulse — 6 October 2025 at 22:27

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

A Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last week on the first day of the government shutdown.

How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More

By: Erica L. Green， Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman — 20 March 2025 at 17:58

President Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.

President Trump paused to view his official portrait hanging in the hallway at the Department of Justice last Friday.