No paper straws or local bike lanes. President Trump is increasingly trying to enforce his will on areas like the arts, sports, news, private companies and college campuses.

It is right there, as clear as day in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 that the legislature controls the money.

Everything is content.

Quinta Jurecic discusses the constitutional crisis that the Trump administration could trigger.

Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

With a compliant Congress and mostly quiet streets, the president’s opponents are turning to the judicial branch with a flurry of legal actions. But can the courts keep up?

Dozens of suits have been filed that seek to stop some of President Trump’s executive orders. Here’s a brief rundown.

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

Trump’s presidency demands your attention.

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.

The administration is showing it doesn’t view the House and Senate as equal partners. So far, Republicans, who hold both majorities, are accepting their new status.

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority.

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

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.

If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.

Justice Juan M. Merchan gave Donald J. Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the president, not the man who will soon hold the title.

Neither kings nor presidents, nor their countries, are well served if they are surrounded by sycophants and rent-seekers.