Government

His war on the “deep state” ties into a long debate about the power of bureaucrats to thwart the President’s agenda.

In America, states now celebrate not just flowers but their own desserts, minerals, neckwear—even firearms. Is there any meaning to the madness?

Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?

Who are the best bureaucrats in America? Every year, one awards show makes the case—to surprisingly moving results. 

“We got so caught up in whether we could install a puppet rat czar in the local government that we never stopped to consider whether we should.”

In a system known as participatory budgeting, citizens tell the government what to do.

As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy.

Chris Grant, the founder of Big Dog Strategies, consulted on more than a hundred Republican campaigns last year. His hero: Karl Rove.

Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press?

The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.

Following a prison term, a fraught election, and a near-coup, the third-time President takes charge of a fractured country.

House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s new coalition includes members who would enforce religious prohibitions over democratic liberties.

Tyrants and thugocrats have tightened their hold amid challenges to democracies, but they face problems, too.

For Biden and a crisis-battered country, an oddly optimistic end to an objectively bad year.

In a small Austrian village, an experimental program finds—or creates—work for the unemployed.

At a House committee hearing this week, the F.D.A. and Abbott passed the buck. With parents scrambling to feed their children, who’s responsible for the shortages?

I should have left you after the first oil spill.

Progressives as well as conservatives have promoted suspicion of the establishment, but lack of trust is not the same as apathy.

A judge recently dismissed two antitrust cases against Facebook. But what appeared to be a setback for the effort may actually provide a road map for how it can succeed.