In 1983, as Ronald Reagan went on an executive-order spree, The Nation sounded the alarm about very kind of presidential overreach we’re seeing from Trump today.

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

The DOE was created to ensure equal access to public education throughout the country. Trump wants to torch the effort ...

Executive orders are unlawful if they override federal ... policy goals,” wrote U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has blocked Trump’s order — which we ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday it was getting rid of nearly half its staff through a variety of measures.

The push to revoke birthright citizenship is equally dangerous. It sends a message that belonging in America is conditional, subject to political whims rather than shared ideals. If we undermine this ...

President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders since returning ... Republican President Ronald Reagan established this influential cultural committee in 1982 to advise him on cultural ...

A union representing the hundreds of fired USAID workers has filed for a restraining order against the Trump administration ...

Washington—Some U.S. Agency for International Development employees have been directed to clear out classified safes and ...

President Donald Trump, with recent actions to impose heavy tariffs and align the U.S. with Russia, is putting an exclamation point on the Republican Party’s hard shift away from the figure long ...

“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words ...

Future presidents, as Donald Trump himself has shown in erasing Joe Biden’s executive orders, easily reverse presidential fiat. Laws, passed by elected representatives and signed by presidents ...