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One of our listeners sent in a question asking about “the ethics clause”, which forbids presidents from receiving foreign gifts. As it turns out, there…

We do our best to answer your questions about how American democracy works, but many of you have also told us you like to get the insider's view from…

What's the purpose of the National Security Council? When was it created? Who serves on it? And why is Steve Bannon's appointment to its principals…

You may have heard of executive orders, but how about executive memoranda? Today, we talk about the different tools of executive action that the President…

When a trio of judges on a federal appeals court in Washington state upheld a freeze on president Trump's Executive Order on immigration, some people…

When Senator Mitch McConnell barred Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking during the debate over Jeff Session’s nomination for Attorney General, he…

The State of the Union address is a longstanding tradition that involves bizarre, unexplained protocol and more applause than a high school graduation.…

We're staying on the federal court system beat with a deeper look into the Supreme Court. The word "supreme"is defined as: “an authority or office…

War, what is it good for? For a country that’s spent a significant amount of its history engaged in conflict, the United States has only officially…

In this episode we untangle two terms that are closely related, but not the same: Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances. The framers envisioned a…