New Jersey’s statewide battle over growth, rooted in a once loosely enforced 1970s law against racial segregation, has turned “vicious” in this Ivy League town.

Supervisor Connie Chan and former tech engineer Saikat Chakrabarti face a challenge in overcoming state Sen. Scott Wiener's ...

Nearly 170 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln warned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. History has echoed that truth many times, most famously in the slow unraveling of the Roman ...

Nebraska’s two Republican U.S. senators might be split on weakening the Senate filibuster as Senate leadership tries to cool ...

From informal amanuenses to institutional gatekeepers, the secretary to the president evolved alongside executive power — eventually yielding its authority to the modern White House chief of ...