The US Congress voted to bring the longest-ever government shutdown to an end.The fallout has left around 1.4 million federal ...

The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, ...

A simplified explanation of how political systems function in society. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix will ...

When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an odd time to be party-mongering, and Van Buren ...

A new Kettering Foundation-Gallup poll finds that about half of U.S. adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only around one-quarter think it’ ...

Some experts say there is a solution that could change the dynamic in relatively short order — either privatize air traffic control, or set up a separate government corporation that can run the system ...

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged warring Afghan sides to seize the opportunity to strike a peace deal at the opening ceremony for long-awaited negotiations in Doha on Saturday.