States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education lingers in the background.

Project Overview This essay is part of a series by Lawyers Defending American Democracy, explaining in practical terms what ...

Trump has long complained about inadequate water pressure in American bathrooms which he blames on federal water-conservation ...

Libraries throughout Maine benefit from the federal funding that the Institute for Museum and Library Services provides for ...

On March 20, the president signed an executive order attempting to close ... The first step to actually shuttering a federal bureaucracy is to begin shutting it down. While Trump certainly could ...

particularly the federal bureaucracy, is too bloated for its own good. And despite coming into office with such power vested in the executive, President Donald Trump has overseen an aggressive ...

In a colorful commentary for the Los Angeles Times, Matt K. Lewis argued that callousness is a central feature of the second ...

An executive order he signed calls for an immediate end to water conservation standards that restrict the number of gallons ...

President Trump's executive order aims to downsize the department ... The U.S. Department of Education is swamp politics at its finest: create a bureaucracy without a clear purpose, let it grow ...

Trump’s March 14 executive order may dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services “to the maximum extent consistent ...

President Trump has an expansive view of presidential authority and is claiming sweeping powers over the executive branch, ...