Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end ...

Trump and Nixon are far from the only presidents to rake in money for inaugurations. Twelve years after Nixon's $4 million ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

The GAO, a nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, can investigate spending and determine if withholding of funds ...

Karoline Leavitt, 27, is the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary. She was a spokesperson for Trump's ...

The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...

Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, the two giant pandas from China, are 3 years old and arrived in October. After taking a few months to ...