Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

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Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand ...

Carter struck a balance between satisfying the needs of employers and protecting American workers from foreign labor ...

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For close to a month, President-elect Donald Trump has warned that the Panamanian government needs to reduce the shipping ...

The flood of executive orders and news was designed to disorient the Democratic resistance. It might be working.

The contrast between two leaders in one generation’s lifespan also raises the eternal ...

Harding, however, was no Trump: The president, newly elected to a second term, has a mean if not sadistic streak, an ...

He declared a southern border emergency, reinstated some first-term policies, and ended programs allowing legal entry to the US ...

Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a ...

There are two areas of bipartisan agreement about President Donald Trump’s early days back in the White House: voters say he ...