In a February executive order, Trump said the U.S. Institute of Peace would be gutted to the "minimum" staff levels required by law.

For years, as right-wing activists called for eliminating the agency, many Republicans paid lip service to the cause but ...

A federal judge denied an effort to immediately reinstate ousted officials at the United States Institute of Peace but ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department.

Trump signs executive order aimed at ‘eliminating’ Education Department ‘once and for all’: Live updates - President claimed ...

Premieres Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Explore the dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film focuses on the determined ...

On draft day, the Dallas Cowboys, an NFL expansion team in 1960, were 3-9 and facing a fourth straight losing season. They had gone winless their first year, 0-11-1, and followed that with 4-9-1 and 5 ...

White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

Our political chemistry set came in a box illustrated with George Washington’s happy humans, full of all the ingredients required for political experimentation. But, like an unsupervised 10-year-old ...

The Missouri legislature is overstepping their mandate as elected officials by disregarding the constitution of the state in attempts to override the vote expressing the will and intent of the ...

Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and ...