Recent examples of October surprises include, in the 2000 election, the late-breaking news that 24 years earlier, George W. Bush had been arrested for DUI and, in 2016, a mere 11 days before the ...

Trump claims he has the executive power to dismantle agencies and fire thousands of workers. Will court fights redefine his ...

Winston Churchill coined the phrase to describe what has become an enduring diplomatic priority, but relationships between ...

The Trump administration’s decision to fire over 6,000 I.R.S. workers will make the government less effective and less ...

As a former White House reporter, I’m familiar with the conventional disputes between journalists and the president. This isn ...

One reason to believe that Trump is governing like a Republican is that he acted like this last time. In addition to the ...

In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors.

McConnell, a diehard adherent to Ronald Reagan’s brand of traditional conservatism ... depending on which party held power.

Billionaire Elon Musk is helping the Trump administration orchestrate mass firings of federal workers, a tactic he's used in his business career. He's up against different realities in the government.

Even pro-Ukraine Republicans have been silent on Donald Trump’s deference to Vladimir Putin.

Alan Charles Raul was associate White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan and general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.

In the early 2000s, just as Connecticut recovered the jobs lost in the post-war recession, the nation entered another ...