David French is an Opinion columnist, writing about law, culture, religion and armed conflict. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former constitutional litigator. His most recent book is ...

Trump’s sweeping use of executive orders is pushing the Supreme Court to decide how much power the presidency really has.

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"[The Office of Government Ethics]' mission is to ensure ethics across the federal government, the federal employee workforce," John Martin said.

Unlike most of the shutdown's economic impacts, the lost productivity from feds not working cannot be reversed.

When the Trump administration decides it can spend money from any budget account on anything it wants and not spend ...

What was billed as a revolution in the balance between Congress and the executive branch may in practice have unleashed the very impulse toward unilateral action it was meant to curb. When I was IRS ...

Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin said JuJu Smith-Schuster deserved to get punched by Brian Branch. During an appearance on the “Club 520” podcast this week, Franklin stuck up for Branch, who was ...

THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL THAT COST A LOT OF TAXPAYER MONEY. THE PAPER IS ALWAYS STACKED HIGH ON THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TABLE AT THE STATEHOUSE. THIS FIVE MEMBER STATEWIDE ELECTED BODY VETS AND APPROVES ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — With just three weeks left until Election Day, Virginia Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate John Reid stopped in Lynchburg on Monday night to speak to voters about why ...

Venezuelan pro-democracy campaigner María Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Despite an unprecedented – and public – campaign for the accolade by Donald Trump, the Norway-based prize ...

The Alaska Legislature has filed a legal challenge to Gov. Mike Dunleavy in a case that could decide the limits of executive power in Alaska. The lawsuit had been expected for months. In August, ...